The Yin and Yang of Greenhouse Gardening: Expanded Edition

ISBN-13: 9781463732578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 62 str.

Louisa Swann

Opis

Greenhouse veggie tips for the person who wants to take charge of their health by growing their own vegetables year round, including: -Preparing your soil -How and what to plant -Care and feeding of your plants -Temperature control -Pollination -Bugs -General greenhouse maintenance Despite the prevailing myths - we love our veggies. Fresh veggies, that is. It's only in the modern age of convenient, long-distance transportation that veggies fell out of flavor. No, not a typo. It's fairly common knowledge that creating vegetables that could travel long distance was like creating the perfect Twinkie. Flavor and nutritional value were sacrificed for convenience, to create the ideal packing material...er...packable material. From the 1950's on, most kids grew up with plastic-like veggies that traveled well and tasted like Grandpa's dirty socks, only not as flavorful. If you've picked up this book, however, I probably don't need to convince you that home-grown veggies are not only tasty, they're better for you. I didn't realize how important fresh vegetables were until my health took a nose dive. That's when our family, committed to growing as much of our own food as possible, stepped into the greenhouse world, a world that has provided hours of joy and entertainment along with the fresh produce that helped me regain my health. Greenhouses have inspired me to live a healthier, happier life. They can inspire you, too.