JACKIE FRENCH'S GUIDE to COMPANION PLANTING

by JACKIE FRENCH

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New softcover book, 184 pages. Published 2013, measures 15 x 21cm.

Companion planting works - but only when you know why. This book is the result of 40 years of studying gardens, orchards and the bush; of Jackie French experimenting and testing what lore works and what doesn't. The result is a plan for gardens that are unconventional and wild, untidy even, but always beautiful, without a need for pesticides and herbicides where plants are companions for each other and for the other species of the earth. In this handy book Jackie shows how to apply companion planting principles to your vegetables, fruits, flowers and weeds, so they'll work to make your garden greener, more productive, full of birds, and free of pests.

Chapters include:

• Companion planting that works
• Developing your own companion planting
• Companion planting for soil fertility
• Companion planting and the lawn
• Companion planting for the vegetable garden
• Companion planting for fruit
• Companion planting for flowers
• Weeds and natural herbicides
• Diagnostic chart of common pests

About the Author

Jacqueline Anne 'Jackie' French (born 1 December 1953) is an award-winning Australian author of children's fiction, and books on gardening. She was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane, but moved to the bush in her early twenties. She is a keen gardener and appeared on the TV series Burke's Backyard. She has written well over a hundred books. Jackie lives in New South Wales, near the small town of Braidwood at Araluen. She began writing when she was 30, in a desperate attempt to get enough money together to register her car. At the time, she was living in a tin shed with a black snake named Gladys and a wombat named Smudge. A hundred and thirty plus books later, she is still writing. She is one of Australia's most popular children's writers.

Jackie owns a flourishing organic farm in southern New South Wales. She practises what she preaches and has become one of Australia's foremost experts on organic gardening, through her regular television and radio appearances, as well as her 'Season By Season' column in Earth Garden magazine. She is also an award-winning children's author and has written more than 30 books on pest control, chooks, self-sufficiency, useful plants and other ways of growing things.

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Jackie French's Guide Companion Planting in Australia and New Zealand