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Hobby Greenhouse Books
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Here are some books we recommend:
In Association with Amazon.com we offer a large selection of books about greenhouses, gardening, hydroponics and many other topics of particular interest to our customers.
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 Greenhouse Gardener's Companion: Growing Food and Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace
by Shane Smith
Our Price: $17.56
An environmentally friendly sourcebook that 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. Veteran greenhouse gardener Shane Smith is the author of The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse. Two color; line illustrations.
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 Greenhouses
by Ortho Books Staff, Susan Lang (Editor), Larry Hodgson
Our Price: $8.95
A home greenhouse is an enchanted place where you can shut the door on a winter storm and quietly putter amid lush greenery, earthy aromas, and a peaceful hush. This book will teach you how to select a site, choose a style, and identify glazing materials suitable for your climate and growing conditions. Included are detailed plans and construction guidelines for five basic greenhouse designs. Or design your own, following the book's step-by-step instructions.
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 Secrets to a Successful Greenhouse: A Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a High-Profit Business That's Beneficial to the Environment
by T.M. Taylor
Our Price:$29.95
The author, Ted M.Taylor ted@greenhouse.net
2000 Edition is 280 pages and includes updated info.
Secrets to a Successful Greenhouse And Business is the NEW TITLE NAME, University of California at San Louis Obispo says, "If you operate a greenhouse for profit you need this book", The Growing Edge Magazine says, "Its an Excellent how-to-guide..a gold mine of information" Many great reviews!100% Money-Back with no time limit from Publisher. There are not enough greenhouse growers in the country to be anywhere near the saturation point - making it an excellent business venture for those who love working with plants. My pragmatic no-nonsense guide offers a complete course for such a business venture. I discuss everything you need to know: plant containers, buying plugs, propagation, hydroponics, specialty crops, watering and growing care, soil and fertilizer mixes and selling to local and national chains. A chapter on greenhouses discusses different types of structures, coverings, heating and cooling systems, and provides plans for a 30'x96' solar greenhouse Another chapter on insect and disease control outlines an excellent organic program emphasizing prevention, organic sprays, and beneficial insects. I pay ample attention to the business side as well, explaining marketing, accounting, sales, plant delivery, bill collecting, computers, financing, licenses and permits. There is also a wholesale price list as guides and a large list of plant buyers and suppliers.
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 Gardening in Your Greenhouse (Greenhouse Basics , No 2)
98 drawings - 6 x 9
by Mark Freeman
Our Price: $15.16
Tips on gardening year-round & Useful for all types of greenhouses 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.
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 The Greenhouse Expert
by D. G. Hessayon
Our Price: $10.36
This is a fine little book for any greenhouse owner and has a superior layout. Add this book to your collection and you won't be sorry.
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 Hydroponic Tomatoes for the Home Gardener
by Howard M. Resh
Our Price: $8.95
Home-grown tomatoes . . . large, red-ripe, deliciously aromatic and full of flavor! They can be yours again with modern hydroponic methods designed for home gardeners by one of America's foremost hydroponics experts.
You don't need previous experience. Your advantages (besides great tomatoes!) include freedom from harmful pesticides, bothersome weeds and insects, plus ease and pleasure in tending the garden. And you can enjoy your tomatoes sooner . . . tomatoes rich in vitamins and minerals and great taste!
Step-by-step instructions, with many clear, "show-me-how" illustrations, both photographs and drawings.
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 Hydroponic Home Food Gardens
by Howard M. Resh
Our Price: $10.36
An all-new work on home hydroponic gardening with an abundance of new information, written for easy reading and productive action.
Dr. Resh, leading hydroponics consultant and author, shows home gardeners how to grow fruits and vegetables in a clean, nutritionally enriched, soilless medium . . . how to say goodbye to problems of infertile or infested soil, weeds, pests . . . how to give plants super nutrition for super growth, appearance, and quality.
Scores of photographs, drawings, and diagrams make it easy to have a variety of gardens a simple home hydroponic window or deck trays or containers, or full-scale hydroponic gardens or small, home greenhouse projects. Illustrated.
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 Hydroponic Food Production : A Definitive Guidebook of Soilless Food-Growing Methods
by Howard M. Resh
Our Price: $39.60
From the Publisher
New Fifth Edition of the premier work on advanced hydroponics.
A complete manual and an encyclopedic reference work on soilless food production. Technically comprehensive with nearly 400 photographs and detailed drawings on every form of hydroponics for temperate, tropical, or cold climates.
A state-of-the-art work widely used by advanced home gardeners and by professional hydroponic growers. Well organized with impeccable academic and professional credentials - Illustrated.
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