Greenhouse Gardener's Manual

(Paperback)

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The ultimate guide to growing inside! A greenhouse can bring you spectacular rewards-if you know how to maximize its potential. In this easy-to-use guide, Roger Marshall covers all the basics-how to choose, heat, irrigate, and maintain your greenhouse-as well how to grow scores of popular plants, including vegetables, herbs, and fruit; ornamentals for flowers and foliage; and collectors' plants such as orchids, bromeliads, cacti, and succulents. You'll also learn propagation techniques, the basics of hydroponics and aquaponics, and the most effective ways of controlling pests and diseases. Don't let that precious space go to waste-find out how your greenhouse can become a gardener's best friend.

Reviews

"This comprehensive manual boasts illustrations and full-color photos throughout. . . . An excellent resource on the subject." --Booklist

"This invaluable tool will serve as an inspiring blueprint for gardeners ready to embark on the adventure of gardening for even more months in the year." --Publishers Weekly

"Provides the nuts and bolts of designing and maintaining greenhouses for these purposes without overwhelming readers with technical minutiae." --The American Gardener

"Anyone purchasing a greenhouse should read this book first. Even experienced greenhouse owners will learn valuable ideas to improve their greenhouse growing." --Home Greenhouse Magazine

"Marshall's 250-page how-to manual includes directions for 70 vegetables and 88 ornamentals, along with maintenance advice and propagation tips. With glossy color photos on every page, from artichokes to aloe, the book also has a handy chart that tells gardeners the optimum container size, bed area, temperature, germination length and planting date." --The Jamestown Press

Author Bio

Roger Marshall built his own home as well as several gardens from rough, overgrown land and two large greenhouses, one heated and one unheated. He now grows fruit trees, flowering plants, vegetables, and flowers all year round in them. He is the editor of Home Greenhouse magazine and the author of fifteen other books.