{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping","title":"Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2206,"description":"We’re joined by Pittsburgh-based horticulturist and author Jessica Walliser (https://www.jessicawalliser.com/) to talk about her new book Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden.\nThere is a lot of folklore that finds its way into discussions about companion planting. Walliser explains that her hope is to reboot the term “companion planting” by looking at it through a scientific lens.\nWhat is Companion Planting?\nWalliser says that companion planting is purposely planting two or more plants close together to get some sort of benefit.\nCompanion planting does not have to mean putting two plants together at the same time, however; it can also mean growing plants in succession.\n\n\nCommon terms used in science that overlap with the idea of companion planting are:\n\n* \nIntercropping\n\n* \nPlant partners\n\n* \nInterplanting\n\n* \nPolyculture\n\n\nBenefits of Plant Partners\nIn her book, Walliser has chapters on seven different benefits of using plant partners in the vegetable garden.\n\n* \nSoil preparation and conditioning\n\n* \nWeed management\n\n* \nSupport and structure\n\n* \nPest management\n\n* \nDisease management\n\n* \nBiological Control\n\n\nPollination","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_y3e1k24nMlKLGYUZdhBsMgezF6u9k_5w92OUmAhniI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMTFk/NDg3ODQxNjE2MGM1/ZWMwNGVhOTgyZTY1/NmZhOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}