Plant parsley and asparagus together and you'll have more of each, but keep broccoli and tomato plants far apart if you want them to thrive. This classic companion-gardening guide outlines the keys to creating a harmoniously varied and bountiful garden. Utilize the natural prope…
Gathers information on the characteristics and uses of plants that promote the growth of other varieties, offering descriptions of helpful weeds and insect-repellent plants.
Includes a chapter on poisonous plants, giving scientific names, common names, and parts found to be poisonous.
First published in 1975, this classic companion planting guide has taught a generation of gardeners how to use plants' natural partnerships to produce bigger and better harvests. Louise Riotte (1909-1998) was one of North America's most beloved gardeners. Her warm, witty writing…
"The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops. These wild and weedy cousins are valuable as a resource for adapting our food, forage, industrial and other cro…
Volume 2 of the fullest, most exact, most useful compilation of herbal material. Gigantic alphabetical encyclopedia, from aconite to zedoary, gives botanical information, medical properties, folklore, economic uses, much else. Indispensable to serious reader. Total in set: 161 i…
Volume 1 of the fullest, most exact, most useful compilation of herbal material. Gigantic alphabetical encyclopedia, from aconite to zedoary, gives botanical information, medical properties, folklore, economic uses, much else. Indispensable to serious reader. There is not one pa…
AAll around us there are wild plants useful for food, medicine, and clothing, but most of us don?t know how to identify or use them. Delena Tull amply supplies that knowledge in this book, which she has now expanded to more thoroughly address plants found in New Mexico and Arizo…
The last Maya of Tikal -- Historical documents = Documentos históricos -- Plants of the Petén Itza' Maya in use since the Spanish conquest -- Scientific families, Latin species, and Itza' generic species = Familias científicas, especies en latín y especies genéricas en itza' -- …
