Product Description

A greenhouse can be a garden's greatest asset: its nucleus and powerhouse. There are many ways of using it and a gardener can adopt one or all of them. In spring, you can start young plants from seed; raise tender perennials to fill gaps in the garden; give young vegetable plants a head start; sow early lettuce while the soil is too sticky to work outdoors. During spring and summer, you can raise greenhouse crops like tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines and chillis. You'll be able to overwinter tender plants such as bananas and cannas. And the greenhouse can be a showcase full of beautiful, unusual and exotic plants.

Trained at Kew and for many years Glasshouse Supervisor at the RHS Garden at Wisley, Anne Swithinbank is the expert on greenhouse gardening, and in this book she comprehensively describes the techniques that will allow you to greatly expand the growing capabilities of your garden.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37399 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-01
• Released on: 2006-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Review
fantastic . . . a joy to read, and the best book for up to date growing methods of greenhouse crops and house plants (Belfast Newsletter )

... the tone is light and genuinely informative. Everything you need is there - rearing flowers and vegetables for outdoors, growing flowers and vegetables under glass, progation, composts and so on (Times )

[Anne Swithinbank]'s knowledge of growing house and conservatory plants is encyclopaedic ... the photographs support the text by underlining this is a real person's greenhouse, one that any of us could emulate (Gardens Illustrated )

Amateur Gardening, 16th September 2006
A really good clear book about greenhouse gardening that will help
you get started and as your experience increases, will serve as a reference
book for many years to come.

The Garden, September 2006
Throughout the book, concise and down-to-earth pros and cons come
through. Useful and interesting facts are given in many of the chapters,
together with plenty of informative, general purpose images. It is a joy
to read . . . an excellent reference book: one to keep.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic easy to understand read
I bought this book as I'm a novice to greenhouse gardening. This book is a must for others like me. It is written in an easy to understand manner and is structured so that you can pick out the sections you want or need without having to wade through endless pages of the stuff you don't want - not that there are any pages in the book that are surplus to requirements! The illustrations and photographs are very helpful too. The author doesn't use jargon or techno speak beyond the understanding of beginners and manages to instill the belief that greenhouse gardening is quite achievable for anyone who wants to have a go. Full of tips on what you need and don't need to buy also. An excellent book overall.

Greenhouse Gardener
I am very pleased with this book. Having bought my first greenhouse I needed something to cover the basics as well as a great overall book. It is exactly what it says in the title - and is the only book I will need on this subject. Excellent.

Lovely but ...
Very lush and beautiful photos but not very easy to work out the practicalities of gardening in a greenhouse. A bit too much of a coffee table book for me.