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Growing plants in greenhouse- book recommendations

c_watkinsc_watkins Posts: 53
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Hello everyone,  I have a 10x6 greenhouse and am growing summer veg for the second year. I'd like to learn a lot more about greenhouse growing especially for in the winter, both vegetables and plants.  There is a huge amount of info out there which I am slowly working my way through, but I like books and I am wondering if anyone could suggest a book which would lay out the possibilities - and how to grow them well under glass?  It could be from basic to advanced I'll read it all!  Many thanks, Chris

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  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    I, like you, enjoy books (usually better than telly?) but use them for ideas only.  For every rule there's an opposite one and, if a gardener had written the Commandments section of the Bible, there'd have been hundreds - not just Ten.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    The Dr Hessayon books are very good at all the basics - not my favourite gardening books to browse through but very good on what to do when and straightforward advice.

    I also like Sarah Ravens Great Vegetable Plot - lots of gorgeous photos and variety recommendations as you might expect from her - but I can’t find my copy to check how much advice she gives on greenhouse gardening. It will certainly cover some but might. It give you the angle you want ie maximising the year round growing?

     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
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