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"'A garden should be easy and fun to care for -- don't complicate things unnecessarily.' This is the slogan of author Inger Palmstierna. In Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening, she helps readers find the joy of cultivating in their very own greenhouses. Palmstierna is a gardening authority with vast knowledge on everything that grows. With infectious enthusiasm, this garden writer and horticulturist explains how to cultivate a successful garden or orchard....
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Cooler-zone gardeners are discovering that with a little wintertime care, plants that have long been considered "annuals" can thrive for years. These plants - including geraniums, gladioli, dahlias, begonias, rosemary, lavender, snapdragons, and even impatiens - aren't annuals at all. Rather, they are tender perennials. They aren't hardy enough to survive winter on their own, but they can be moved indoors during the cold months and then returned to...
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Describes the necessary tools and techniques to build and maintain a greenhouse, explaining how to select the right one and how to create a healthy environment, and offers profiles and complete growing information for hundreds of flowers, vegetables, and ornamental plants. --Publisher's description.
6) Growing under cover: techniques for a more productive, weather-resistant, pest-free vegetable garden
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"Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and pest infestations are challenging today's vegetable gardeners. But best-selling author Niki Jabbour has a solution: Growing Under Cover. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows how to use small solutions like cloches, row covers, shade cloth, cold frames, and hoophouses, as well as larger protective structures like greenhouses and polytunnels, to create controlled growing spaces for vegetables to thrive....
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Provides advice for greenhouse gardening including how to select and propagate plants, how to set up a greenhouse, solving pest and disease problems, how to schedule for year-round harvests, and includes an alphabetical listing of over three-hundred flowers, fruits, vegetables, and herbs.
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Growing in hoophouses reduces the impact of increasingly unpredictable climate on crops, mitigates soil erosion, extends growing seasons, and strengthens regional food supply. The Year-Round Hoophouse teaches how to site, design, and build a hoophouse and successfully grow abundant produce all year in a range of climates.
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Growing Vegetables (The First-Time Gardener) is an essential tool for newbie gardeners, handing them all the practical and inspirational know-how they need to grow a fruitful garden, even if its their very first time sinking a seed into the soil. Planting your first vegetable garden can be intimidating; it's tough to know where to start. Before you sink your hands into the soil, you want answers to all of those questions rolling around inside your...
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"Comprehensive coverage of passive solar greenhouse design including material selection, building methods and how to store thermal energy using a variety of simple and innovative strategies. Over a dozen case studies provide real-life inspiration, capped off with how-to guidance for building a durable, energy-efficient greenhouse. Variations include underground and aquaponic greenhouses and integrating solar panels to grow off-grid, year-round."--...
17) The Complete greenhouse book: building and using greenhouses from coldframes to solar structures
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