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.

"In this 1914 work, prolific gardening author Liberty Hyde Bailey turned his attention to the successful cultivation of vegetables in glass houses. Included are instructions for building and managing glass houses, as well as information specific to particular crops, including lettuces, asparagus, tomatoes, and various types of melons."

"This 1802 work describes the means by which fruits and kitchen-garden staples such as grapes, mushrooms, salad greens, and herbs, among others, can be forced by use of greenhouses and other means."

David Thomson's concise handbook explains how to grow fruit in greenhouses.

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

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".

This gardening style book contains ideas about how to transform small spaces into idyllic retreats. The book provides practical advice on how to create 17 different leafy havens, ranging from design considerations, through installation, to plant maintenance.