Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening: Expert Advice on How to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Other Plants

Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening: Expert Advice on How to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Other Plants

by Inger Palmstierna
Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening: Expert Advice on How to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Other Plants

Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening: Expert Advice on How to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Other Plants

by Inger Palmstierna

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Overview

Learn everything you ever needed to know about managing your own greenhouse! Build and decorate your greenhouse. Harvest your own vegetables and herbs. And much, much more!

“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.

The greenhouse is the place where green thumbs are realized, and your imagination can run wild. Palmstierna believes: “The greenhouse provides opportunities, but does not demand.” Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening is an accessible book with many beautiful pictures and practical instructions. The topics covered include:
  • Building and decorating your own greenhouse
  • Training seedlings and early plant development
  • How to sow, grow, and winter plants
  • How to harvest vegetables and herbs
  • How to cultivate summer flowers for planting
  • And more!

In addition to providing a garden year-round, the greenhouse can also be a beautiful addition to your yard and can be customized to match your tastes. You’ll learn the basics on what to consider when buying, laying the foundations for, and decorating your greenhouse—as well as how to plan and use one. Soon after you’ll be ready to explore the many types of vegetables and flowering plants that thrive in greenhouses.

So, get ready to enjoy fresh vegetables and flowers year-round!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781510735101
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 09/04/2018
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 524,731
Product dimensions: 7.60(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Inger Palmstierna, apart from being an established and experienced garden writer, is also a journalist, translator, lecturer, and photographer. Palmstierna has worked in gardens since she was twelve years old and is a trained horticulturalist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She has run her own business, Aliske Cultivation, since 1988. Palmstierna enjoys engaging in her own small experiments and test farms.

Table of Contents

Introduction 10

1 Acquiring a Greenhouse 12

2 Cultivation 16

3 Green or Brown Thumb Gardener? 20

4 Planting, Pre-Cultivation, Potting Up 2?

5 Mm Flowers for Outdoor Plantings 48

6 Wide Bed Sowing for Bountiful Flower Beds 59

7 Growing Vegetables in the Greenhouse 62

8 Vegetables to Plant Outside 82

9 Early Harvests in the Greenhouse 89

10 Hotbeds and Cold Frames 92

11 A Greenhouse in Flower Year-Round 99

12 Overwintering Punts in the Greenhouse 110

13 Spring Flowers, Bulbs, and Perennials 111

14 Houseplants-Cuttings and Seeds 129

15 Greenhouse Options-Location, Structure, and Materials 134

16 Foundation 150

17 Heating and Irrigation 156

18 Interior and Lighting 169

19 Caring for the Greenhouse 178

20 Winter in the Garden-Recommended Reading Material 183

Acknowledgments 184

Index 185

How 70's

Sowing 30

Potting 34

Planting and care of geophytes (bulbs, root's and rhizome) 56

Wide sowing 60

Vegetable cultivation 84

Cultivating in a hotbed/cold frame 93

Sowing for spring blooms 118

Planting bulbs 122

Sowing perennials 124

Propagation by cuttings 129

Practical Information

Fertilizer in the water 36

Table of summer flowers 42-49

Flowering plants for Ranging baskets 52

Suitable plants for wide bed sowing in flat/box 60

Vegetables that can be started in cell trays 84

Plants for pre-cultivation and growing in hotbeds/cold frame 95

Plants for direct seeding in cold frame/hotbed, and for early harvest 95

Overwintering temperatures for plants 115

Christmas bulbs 122

Perennials to grow from seed 126

Herbs to grow from seed 127

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