The Greenhouse Gardener

By Anne Swithinbank Photographs by John Swithinbank


The Greenhouse Gardener
Online price: £16.99
Paperback, 192 pages
Published: 1st March 2012

Category: Gardens and Gardening


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 vegetable 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.

Acknowledgements

Introduction



1. Starting up

* Setting up you greenhouse

* Raising plants from seed

* Taking cuttings

* Potting on



2.Raising flowers for the garden

* Bedding plants from seed

* Easy bedding plants

* Annual climbers

* Quick-growing biennials and perennials from seed

* Starting dahlias from tubers

* Cannas



3. Raising vegetables and herbs for the garden

* Early starts

* Beans

* Shallots and garlic

* Home-grown herbs



4. Greenhouse crops

* A variety of crops to try

* Tomatoes

* Aubergines

* Capsicums

* Physalis

* Cucumbers

* Melons

* Citrus

* Dessert grapes

* Peaches



5. The showhouse

* Looking good all year

* Arranging your plants

* Under the staging

* Long-lived plants for greenhouse display

* Long-lived climbing plants

* Annuals and short-lived treats

* Short-lived climbing plants



6. Special collections

* Fuchsias

* Chrysanthemums

* Pelargoniums

* Carnivorous plants

* Cacti and other succulents

* Bulbs

* Tender bulbs

* Hardy spring-flowering bulbs

* Lilies

* House plants



7. Greenhouse care

* Routine tasks

* Pests and disease

* Seasonal reminders



Index

Anne is the expert on greenhouse gardening, and she comprehensively describes the techniques that will allow you to greatly expand the growing capabilities of your garden.

- Image Interiors

A book by real people, written using their own greenhouse experience.

Covers the tricky art of getting the most of growing under glass.

- Guardian Gardening blog

[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

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


Publication Details:

Binding: Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN: 9780711233362
Format: 270mm x 190mm
350 colour photographs

BIC Code: TVS, WMF
BISAC Code:  GAR008000
Imprint: Frances Lincoln


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