- ISBN13: 9781555914509
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Product Description
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-selli… More >>
Greenhouse Gardener’s Companion, Revised: Growing Food & Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace
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This is a great book for some one who needs the basics on gardening. I found the first 126 pages full of good info on setting up a greenhouse, but got to mention over 25 picture from a greenhouse supply catalog that I all ready got free.. the next 50 pages on propagation didn’t have any thing on air layering or some other fun ways of growing plants. Its (air layering) the best way to start many plants. The next 125 pages is used to describe lots of flowers and vegetables, already in most good gardening books. The section on insects is very good and is worth the cost of this book. But the biggest problem I have with this otherwise well wrote book, is the negetive comments about hydroponics. The author does not seem to know of the latest fun growing methods that most greenhouse growers would like to dabble in. There are organic hydroponic fertilizers or you can make them. Growing hydroponic vegges does not have to be done the expensive set ups that some commercial growers use. Most large growers are using a very simple method that anyone can use. The directory had no surprises, alittle small. Do get this book if you no very little about gardening. A great first gardening book.
Rating: 2 / 5
One of the best Greenhouse books out there!
Rating: 5 / 5
Why do authors repeat info page after page? half the book is not worth reading if you aren’t growing all the hundreds of plants it list, each page has a seperate page with mostly the same info as the page before over and over and over. Its find if you read one and skip the rest that you could care less about, but then there is only 200 pages of not very exciting info. But the big deal is that I found these processes out of date and could not get Any of the phone numbers it list. Does the author think that the greenhouse industry has been sleeping for 10 years? I think he forgot that thousands of new products and designs that take the worry out of this fun hobby. But after all this I would buy this and all books on greenhouse because one idea is worth the money!
Rating: 1 / 5
Very informative, with tidbits of information. It is my first greenhouse book and I think I picked the best one.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book has been very helpful in providing information on the types of greenhouses and the pros and cons of each type.
Rating: 4 / 5