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Through lively writing that balances wit with commonsense advice, Smith draws on his more than 20 years’ experience to cover everything you need to know to establish a charming and productive greenhouse. This revised edition includes more detailed information on greenhouse construction, heating options, and interior design. An expanded section on pest and disease control features updated information on integrated pest management (IPM) for those who prefer to control "bad bugs" with "good bugs" rather than with toxic pesticides. Smith introduces you to the latest greenhouse gadgets, from glazing materials, to fans and vents, to misters and watering devices. A new section on orchids introduces the basic orchid families and
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Through lively writing that balances wit with commonsense advice, Smith draws on his more than 20 years’ experience to cover everything you need to know to establish a charming and productive greenhouse. This revised edition includes more detailed information on greenhouse construction, heating options, and interior design. An expanded section on pest and disease control features updated information on integrated pest management (IPM) for those who prefer to control "bad bugs" with "good bugs" rather than with toxic pesticides. Smith introduces you to the latest greenhouse gadgets, from glazing materials, to fans and vents, to misters and watering devices. A new section on orchids introduces the basic orchid families and provides practical advice for growing the species successfully. This edition includes more than 250 new and exquisite illustrations, plus copious instructive photos and charts, detailed appendixes listing garden associations; suppliers (with website addresses); climate information; helpful references, and more.

Shane Smith is a founder and the director of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens in Cheyenne, Wyoming. There, he has developed a ""people-focused"" solar greenhouse that employs seniors, at-risk youths, and disabled individuals and that serves the larger community with lectures, tours, and plant sales. Amidst work on a TV pilot for a garden series, numerous lecture tours, a weekly garden radio program, and writing, Smith still finds time to operate and enjoy his greenhouses at work and at home.

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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There's something refreshing about a gardening book that doesn't start out with soil. Smith ( The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse ) puts off the nitty-gritty subject until chapter nine. In the meantime, he covers such subjects as vegetables, flowers and herbs, light and temperature, ground beds and containers, and crop spacing and scheduling. This is not a complicated book; the operative word for it is ``companion.'' And while some of the advice is rather elementary, it does lead the reader painlessly through the steps and requirements of owning and gardening in a greenhouse. Undoubtedly, Smith's role as a lecturer and host of a radio gardening show has also inspired him to write in terms simple enough for beginners. His saving grace is a quiet sense of humor that's evident throughout the book--from his warnings about weather to his ``biased opinion of hydroponics.'' When Smith does get around to soil, he goes at it from the point of view of providing plants with a healthy root system--covering soil pH and nutrients and organic soil amendments in beds and pots. The extensive final chapter is devoted to everything that can go wrong--i.e., pests and diseases, for which Smith recommends mostly organic and biologic controls. As he points out, a ``greenhouse or sunroom garden is probably the closest garden you'll ever live with.'' This is a book to live with. Illustrated. Garden Book Club alternate. (Nov.)
Library Journal
The director of Cheyenne Botanic Gardens and author of The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse ( LJ 4/15/82) has produced a practical, comprehensive guide to making the most of any greenhouse or garden room. Addressing almost every aspect except the actual construction, Smith covers the greenhouse environment (light, humidity, temperature), interior design (plant placement, fans, drainage), individual plants and their propagation, pollination, growth, and scheduling for flower or fruit production. There are chapters on problems, diseases, and insects, and lists of associations, mail-order suppliers, and sun averages during the year across the country. As a Wyoming gardener, he puts a good deal of emphasis on using the greenhouse in summer as well as in winter, but this is a useful, practical guide for readers in most of the continental United States.-- Molly Newling, Piscataway P.L., N.J.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781555914509
  • Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
  • Publication date: 4/10/2000
  • Edition description: REVISED
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 544
  • Sales rank: 79,077
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Since its inception in 1977, Shane Smith has served as the director (and co-founder) of the Cheyenne Botanic Garden, Wyoming's only public botanic garden. It is a people-oriented, solar heated and powered project. Under his direction, the project has received recognition awards from Presidents Reagan, Bush (senior) and Clinton. The project also received the community hero award from Wyoming Governor Geringer. Smith has a degree in Horticultural Science and has attained Registration as a “Horticultural Therapist HT,” from the American Horticultural Therapy Association. He also served a year as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University, where he both lectured and pursued studies in design, community issues, and leadership.

Greenhouse Gardener's Companion is Smith's third published book. He currently produces a weekly garden-oriented radio program. Additionally, he has consulted and lectured on gardening, horticultural therapy, greenhouses, and community greening for over 28 years in 27 different states as well as Mexico, Venezuela and Canada.

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  • Posted January 19, 2012

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    I gave this to my husband for Christmas. He loves it....

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 2, 2012

    Recommended

    It is full of great information. We just added a greenhouse to the south side of our garden shed. Can't wait to use the helpful info received from this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2010

    Greenhouse

    This is an excellent reference for a greenhouse grower and for those planing to build a greenhouse.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 15, 2009

    Greenhouse Gardener's Companion is full of pertinent information.

    I am still reading through this book by Shane Smith. He has filled it full of excellent information. I bought a new, larger greenhouse and plan to use this document often.

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  • Posted June 29, 2009

    Great reference book for the part-time greenhouse gardener!

    After looking over several books recommended for greenhouse owners, this one stood out. This book is comprehensive without being difficult to read, and I feel it is the most economical for the breadth of information given.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 2, 2001

    One of the Best!

    Great book for all beginners or greenthumbs. If you are interested is fun and easy business or hobby growing plants for money, see my book 'Secrets to a Successful Greenhouse and Business'

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