Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting For Beauty and Bounty — By Lisa Mason Ziegler

  Centuries ago, before chemical fertilizers and engineered inputs, the most productive vegetable gardens shared one common attribute: the vegetables were paired up. Not with other vegetables, but with beds of beautiful flowers. Even then, gardeners knew that Vegetables Love Flowers. Or, to be more precise, vegetables love pollinators, and pollinators love flowers. Drawn by colorful, fragrant blossoms, they visit in swarms, performing their good work. And, the vegetables thrive. Companion planting with vegetables and flowers is not as simple as it sounds. But, if you follow the timetables, tips and planting schedules outlines in Vegetables Love Flowers, author Lisa Mason Ziegler will show you how to keep the flowers blooming and the pollinators buzzing. Your vegetables will produce more fruit than ever, and as an added bonus, you will enjoy your lovely cut flowers all season long.  Seasoned organic flower and vegetable farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler makes a convincing case for the benefits