Unlock the secrets to creating a thriving garden with the 'Gardener's Guide to Protected Growing.' This essential guide is perfect for both amateur and professional gardeners, garden designers, and landscape architects. Learn how to establish and maintain a successful, sustainable micro-climate tailored for your plants. Whether you're interested in large-scale glasshouses, effective shelters, or modest cold frames and greenhouses, this book provides invaluable insights into managing light, heat, and humidity for optimal growth.

With 144 pages rich in expert guidance, you'll explore sustainable practices, soil husbandry alternatives like hydroponics, and ways to enhance health and hygiene within your protected spaces. Delve into biodiversity, nurturing natural allies, and gain industry insights from professionals at globally recognized gardens and leading manufacturers. Featuring groundbreaking research from esteemed institutions like NASA and MIT, this book reveals cutting-edge horticultural techniques you can apply in your own garden.

Author Guy Deakins, a fourth-generation horticulturist, brings a wealth of knowledge and passion for the environment to this indispensable volume. Perfect for anyone eager to cultivate their gardening skills sustainably!

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Gardener's Guide to Protected Growing: Creating a successful, sustainable and healthy micro-climate in the garden

By Deakins, Guy
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 144
Publisher The Crowood Press


This book is for all gardeners (be they amateur or professional), garden designers and landscape architects, who want to learn how to create and maintain a protective environment suitable for any type of plant they wish to grow. From large scale glasshouses, shelters and living boundaries, to modest cold frames and greenhouses, this book will equip readers with the knowledge to manage their protected space successfully and sustainably. Coverage includes: the managing light, heat and humidity; the climate future and sustainable practices; soil husbandry and alternatives, including hydroponics; health and hygiene in protected spaces and finally, understanding biodiversity and encouraging natural allies. Industry insights from experts and professionals at internationally renowned gardens and leading manufacturers, as well as exceptional research from NASA, MIT and other leading universities, explore what's happening at the cutting edge of horticulture and how this knowledge can be applied in your own garden. AUTHOR: Guy Deakins is a design historian by training and the fourth generation of his family to be involved in horticulture and design. Having had a successful garden consultancy for many years, he now gives talks on various subjects as well as writing for several publications. He is passionate about the environment and counts himself lucky to have worked alongside some wonder