Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening

by Louise Riotte

Overview

This classic has now taught generations of gardeners how to use the natural benefits of plants to protect and support each other. Here is a reader's complete reference to which plants nourish the soil, which keep away bugs and pests, and which plants just don't get along. Here is a complete guide to using companion planting to grow a better garden. 555,000 copies in print.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580170277
Publisher:	Storey Books
Publication date:	01/02/1998
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	11,516
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Beloved author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. During her life, she wrote twelve books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes. Her father taught her how to practice astrology, while her mother was an herbalist. Together they greatly influenced her life and her books, including Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and Raising Animals by the Moon. Riotte was an artist as well as a writer, and her own drawings appear in all of her books. She took great pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Vegetables

Herbs

Wild Plants

Grasses, Grains, and Field Crops

First Steps for Home Fruit Growing

Nuts

Ornamental Trees and Shrubs

Garden Techniques

Soil Improvement

Pest Control

Poisonous Plants

Garden Plans

Sources

Suggested Reading

Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Carrots Love Tomatoes, by Louise Riotte…a guide to companion planting that has become legendary in gardening circles ever since the first edition was printed in 1975”

-Spokesman-Review

Editorial Reviews

Carrots Love Tomatoes, by Louise Riotte…a guide to companion planting that has become legendary in gardening circles ever since the first edition was printed in 1975”

-Spokesman-Review

From the Publisher