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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Greenhouses, conservatories, patios
Are you a gardening newbie who wants to know the ins and outs of
what the functions of a greenhouse are and how to maintain it or
perhaps a veteran of gardening who knows how to grow your own food
but wants to find a way to garden all year round? Are you looking
for greenhouse plans or perhaps how to build a greenhouse in an
easy to understand and comprehensive format? For someone who loves
gardening and the ability to grow your own food, knowing how to
build a greenhouse is a great thing to know. It enables you to
customize your greenhouse according to the area and climate you are
in plus the type of plants that you want to have. The book consists
of 9 full chapters discussing all you need to know about building
greenhouses. From functions, guidelines to follow, supplies to use,
how to make the green house system work and understand its
components, plans for greenhouses, ideal sizes, designs and
structures, maintaining humidity level and much more.
Grow your own organic vegetables and enjoy fresh flowers late into
the winter and early in the spring with your sturdy, homemade hoop
greenhouse. An easy to follow, step-by-step guide to building a
spacious 12'x14' greenhouse using steel reinforced PVC pipe that
stands up to high winds and heavy snows Includes bonus plans to add
electricity for winter heating. One person, even with little or no
building experience, can build it in a weekend with the easy to
follow step-by-step plans that include detailed drawings, 25
closeup pictures, and a complete list with pictures of every
component, fastener and tool you will need to make it perfect.
Greenhouse Gardening, Your Guide To Greenhouse Growing; Easy
Growing Tips
This book will lead you through the complete process of
purchasing, setting up and maintaining your greenhouse. Once you
have a functioning greenhouse you then need to understand what
makes your plants grow. Heat, soil and water are critical to your
growing success. This guide describes how best to optimize these
parameters so that you are able to grow the plants you want not
only in spring and summer but also through fall and winter. This
ebook shows you how to get the best from your greenhouse by taking
the next step to just great growing of all types of plants
vegetables and flowers at anytime of the year.
Rockwell provides a concise though thorough coverage of indoor and
greenhouse gardening. The author has written numerous books on all
aspects of gardening including "Home Vegetable Gardening," "Round
the Year in the Garden," and "The Key to the Land."
Shows parents and grandparents how easy it is to integrate a safe
play space into their property. This book guides readers through
the process of designing, planning, and constructing safe play
areas for children of various ages. It also educates parents and
grandparents on how to create a do-it-yourself play space.
Contents - Foreword - Introduction - List of Plates- - I Greenhouse
and Plant Frames - 2 The Garden Room or Annex - 3 Bottle Gardening
- 4 Ventilating, Watering, Feeding and Potting - 5 Methods of
Propagation - 6 Warm Greenhouse (Stove) Plants - 7 Cool Greenhouse
Plants (Soft-wooded) - 8 Hard-wooded Greenhouse Plants - 9 Annuals
for the Cool Greenhouse - 10 Cacti and Other Free-flowering
Succulents - 11 Attractive Greenhouse Climbers - 12 Greenhouse
Plants which grow from Bulbs, Corms and Rhizomes - 13
Free-flowering Orchids for the Beginner - 14 Greenhouse Plants with
Attractive Berries - 15 Ornamental-leaved Plants (including Ferns)
- 16 Forcing Hardy Plants - 17 Colourful Plants for the Unheated
Greenhouse - 18 Pests, Diseases and Insecticides - Index - Preface
- Professor of Botany - I have written this book for the benefit of
those who wish to grow suitable plants to provide flowers in a
greenhouse or conservatory or to use for room decoration, during
all seasons of the year. Plants which do not flower freely and are
not of great decorative value have been omitted, and only those
which I have found to be ideal for the purpose have been dealt with
in this book. There is a vast number of greenhouse plants to be
seen in botanical gardens and large private establishments, but
only a limited number are offered for sale by nurserymen. From
these plant catalogues, which they issue free of charge, I have
selected the most decorative kinds and have given the fullest
details of their cultivation. Therefore, by choosing plants from
the "lists of flowering plants for every season of the year" given
on p. 203, it will be found possible to provide a continuous
display of flowers in the heated or unheated greenhouse. I am
indebted to Messrs. T. Bath & Co., Ltd., Greenhouse
Specialists, 14 Norwood Road, Herne Hill, London, S.E. 24, for
supplying the photographs of types of greenhouses, ventilators and
heating appliances. I am also grateful to Dr. A. J. Willis, Reader
in Botany in the University of Bristol, for advice and assistance
in the preparation of this book. G. F. GARDINER
The greenhouse is one of the most useful tools a gardener can have.
It is a place to propagate seedlings, nurture young plants,
experiment with exotic planting and hide from the rain. This book
provides all the information and advice you will need to decide
which greenhouse is right for you, set it up and get your planting
going, and all under the watchful eye of the nation's favourite
gardener. Includes: * guidance on selecting, installing and
maintaining a greenhouse * recommended vegetables, fruit, herbs and
ornamental plants for growing under cover * practical advice on
general care, harvesting, storage, propagation and pest control *
seasonal management guide * step-by-step illustrations showing
essential techniques Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of
expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced
gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow
instructions guide you through the basic gardening skills and on to
the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to get the
most from your greenhouse.
This illustrated catalogue contains 1500 of the best greenhouse plants, selected by the author from first-hand experience. She groups her plant selection according to their most useful function - as specimen plants for impact, climbers for background and shade, trailing plants, foliage plants, flowering and fruiting plants for attractive seasonal effects, and aquatic plants.;The book gives advice and information on providing the best conditions for growing plants in a conservatory, including ways of regulating light, temperature and humidity. There are also ideas for interior landscaping. Cultivation of plants is described in "Plant Care" which tells all that is needed to know to achieve success in growing exotic plants in a conservatory.;The author is a regular presenter of BBC TV's "Gardener's World" and a panellist on BBC Radio's "Gardener's Question Time" and has been in charge of the glasshouses at the Royal Horticultural Society garden at Wisley. Other books she has written include "A Handbook of Greehouse and Conservatory Plants", "The Gardeners' World Book of House Plants" and "The Gardeners' World Book of Container Gardening".
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