Ortho’s All about Greenhouses – by Michael McKinley
Offers basic information and principles. The pictures are excellent 106 pictures, and 80 illustrations, in this 96 page book.
Offered:
Choosing the right gardening and greenhouses greenhouse
Construction Basics
Greenhouse plans
Benches and equipment
Managing the greenhouse
Growing projects – hydroponic, Hardiness zone, moth orchids
Greenhouse Gardener`s Companion – by Shane Smith (author) and Marjorie Leggit (illustrator)
497 pages. One of the great reference books for any backyard greenhouse gardener.
Topics Include:
Interior Design
Propagation
Plant Scheduling
Year-round production
Solar heated or conventionally heated greenhouse gardening
Natural pest control
List of over 300 – flowers, vegetables and herbs
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long – by Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch
Eliot Coleman’s greenhouse books focus on growing Organic home-grown vegetables throughout the year. A market gardener by trade, Mr. Coleman shows that gardening in the winter months can be done. Sunlight and wind protection are more important than temperature.
He achieves this using tall tunnel houses or Hoop Houses, to protect from wind and keep the snow off of the plants, in the most in-expensive way possible.
Shows how to do this in-expensively through focusing on planting the right plants at the right times saving from the cost of heating the greenhouse.
Topics that this greenhouse gardening books offers:
Planting dates
Construction Details
Sources of seeds
Greenhouse tools
Greenhouses for Homeowners and Gardeners – by John W. Bartock, Jr.
214 pages. This greenhouse book will help with Greenhouse style, size and placement. It decide the best way to build a greenhouse choosing either building one on your own or through a contractor.
This greenhouse book also offers 10 greenhouse plans, as