Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte (1998, Paperback)

This book is an excellent companion for the home gardener. It lists all vegetables and flowers common to household gardens, and each of their complements (which plants should be combined for optimum growth and disease and insect resistance).

For example, we had planted yarrow and gallardia in our flower garden. The gallardia grew only 18" tall. It should have been twice that size. The book states that yarrow slows the growth of other plants, shortening them. This is true.

This book also has drawings for layouts of ideal gardens.

This book will be a great help for future years as a reference for my home garden.

This is a great book for anyone who wants to grow an organic garden. My husband and I have been struggling with seedlings being eaten by pincer bugs and various others. Companion planting is a must if you don't want to use chemicals and pesticides. I told a friend about this book so I bought her a copy because she wanted to borrow mine. I didn't want to give it up for any length of time :) She absolutely loves it too. We both avoid reading books if at possible but Louise Roiotte makes this book so interesting, helpful and easy to read that we can't put it down. I highly recommend it! As for the seller...they shipped both books out right away and they were brand new as stated.