The Greenhouse or Sunspace Environment
- Designing and Building a New Greenhouse
- Glazing
- Measuring Light in the Greenhouse
- Sun Substitutes: Choosing the Right
- Lighting System
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the Greenhouse
- Setting Up for Composting
- Watering Your Greenhouse Plants
- Humidity
- Air Temperature
- Soil Temperature
- Cooling and Ventilating the Greenhouse and Sunsapace
- Weather and the Greenhouse
- Gizmos for the Greenhouse
Interior Design
- Visualizing and Planning Your Greenhouse Space
- Aisles and Floors
- Propagation Bench
- Potting Area
- Shelves
- Mixing Garden and Leisure Space
- Putting Plants to Soil
- Be Adaptable!
- Greenhouse Seasons and Microclimates: Making the Most of Your Sunspace
- Greenhouse Seasons
- Plants in the Greenhouse Environment
- Using Your Greenhouse Space Effectively
- Planting Patterns
- Use the Seasons and Microclimates to Your Advantage!
Selecting the Right Plants for the Greenhouse
- Mail-Order Catalogs
- Hybrids: Advantages and Disadvantages
- Selecting Vegetable Varieties
- Plants for the Solar-Heated and Cool-Winter Greenhouse
- Choosing Bushy Versus Tall Plants
- Disease Resistance
- Pest Resistance
- Greenhouse Varieties
- Plants That Need Winter
- Vive la Difference!
Plant Propagation
- Seed Propagation
- Germinating and Planting Seeds
- Transplanting
- Giving Plants the Slip While Cloning Around
Pollination
- Why Plants Flower
- Environmental Conditions for Pollination
- What and How to Pollinate
- Setting Fruit Artificially
- Pollinating Tropical and Subtropical Fruiting Plants
- Final Thoughts on Pollination
Scheduling
- Scheduling Considerations: Before You Begin
- Growing Plants for the Outside Garden
- Bringing Plants in from the Outside Garden
- Growing Ornamental Flowering Plants in the Greenhouse
- Growing Vegetables in the Greenhouse
- Create Your Own Schedule
A Closer Look at the Plants
- Ornamental Flowering Crops
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Herbs, Herb Cultivation, Processing and Using Herbs
Getting to the Roots
- The Year-Round Soil
- Basic Requirements for Healthy Soil
- Nutrients for Soil and Plants
- Fertilizers
- Equipment and Feeding: Fertilizer Siphons,
- Injectors, and Foliar Feeding
- A Word About Hydroponics
- Soil Amendments
- The Effect of Soil Temperature on Fertilizer Uptake
- Maintaining Healthy, Fertile Soil
- Repotting and Up-potting
- Using Mulches in a Greenhouse
- The Way to Approach Working with Soil
When Things Go Wrong
- Managing Pets and Diseases in the Greenhouse
- Your Best Defense
- Causes and Effects of Problems: Animal,
Mineral, or YOU? - Pest-Control Strategies
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- The Basics of a Successful IPM Program
- Sprays with IPM
- IPM and Patience
- Beneficial Critters That Feed on Many Pests
- Sprays as Pest Controls
- Alternative Sprays and Concoctions for Pest
Control - Other Naturally Based Pest Sprays
- Spray Adjuvants and Additives
- Other Nonspray Pest Controls
- Know Your Pests
- Identifying Pests in Your Greenhouse
- Common Greenhouse Pests
- Weeds
- Diseases
- Organism-Caused Diseases and Characteristics
- Disease-Control Strategies
- Common Greenhouse Plant Diseases
- Environmentally Caused Diseases
- Diseases: A Final Word
Epilogue: A Glimpse at the Future
- The Greenhouse as a Home-Production Unit
- The Community Greenhouse Concept
- New Purposes for the Greenhouse
- Future Pest Control
- The Future Greenhouse in the Present
- Greenhouses and World Hunger
- High Technology and the Greenhouse
- Biotechnology in the Greenhouse
- In Conclusion
Appendixes
1. Helpful Associations and Organizations
2. Average Percent Possible Sunshine
3. Mail-Order Pest Control
4. Material Properties: Glazing, Thermal Storage, and Water for Solar Heating
5. Mail-Order Plants
6. Mail-Order Seeds
7. Mail-Order Supplies
8. Record keeping
9. Bibliography and Further Reading and Resources
Index