Building Your Own Greenhouse (Greenhouse Basics) by Mark Freeman
$13.97
Building a greenhouse can be easy and inexpensive with this comprehensive handbook. Practical instructions guide you through every step of the process: selecting a site, laying a foundation, graming, glazing, ventilating, insulating, plumbing, wiring. The book includes eleven specific examples, from simple cold frames to large freestanding and attached-to-the-house structures. All are functional in climates where winter temperatures drop below zero. You can replicate one of these greenhouses from the instructions included or use similar techniques to design your own. Although there may be moments of doubt, depression and dispair, when you have completed the construction, you will find that your new greenhouse functions far better than you dared hope it would. And you will have to admit that building it was at least half the fun.
Gardening in Your Greenhouse (Greenhouse Basics, No 2) by Mark Freeman
$13.97
This book includes tips on gardening year-round that are useful for all types of greenhouses. The book includes how to raise plants in the home greenhouse, with information on selecting equipment, preparing the soil, watering, regulating heat and light, starting seeds, fighting pests, transplanting, and hardening off -- all presented in a lively, down-to-earth manner. Helpful hints on growing vegetables and herbs, flowering and nonflowering houseplants, and flowers that can be harvested in quantity. Mark Freeman, author of Building Your Own Greenhouse and The Solar Home lives in East Greenwich, New York, in a solar home he designed and built. He gardens in an attached greenhouse, which he also designed and built.
Greenhouse Gardener's Companion by Shane Smith, Marjorie C. Leggitt (Editor)
$16.07
Imagine savoring the taste of your own homegrown tomato, fresh from the vine, in February! How about harvesting fresh organic salad greens year-round, or stepping into a blossom-laden tropical paradise on the coldest of winter days? Today, greenhouses and sunrooms are real living spaces where gardeners spend as much time with a book and a cup of coffee as they do with a watering can and a pair of pruning shoes. In this fully revised edition of a best-selling classic, veteran gardener Shane Smith embraces this new lifestyle approach to greenhouse gardening. This 531 page book includes detils about growing food and flowers in your greenhouse or sunspace. It is a complete reference for growing in a home or hobby greenhouse. It is actually two books in one, providing everything the gardener needs to know about setting up a healthy growing environment within a sunspace, plus a complete guide to growing flowers, vegetables and herbs in the greenhouse. Inside you'll find help for laying out the inside of a home greenhouse, propagation, year-round growing schedules and special greenhouse tips for growing over 300 food and flower crops! The author has always emphasized environmentally friendly techniques wherever possible and includes over 10 pages about using beneficial insects.
