Polytunnels, Greenhouses and Protective Cropping
a guide to growing techniques
$75.84
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2016
Summary
This comprehensive book, written by an acknowledged expert, is packed with useful information and is an invaluable reference work that covers all aspects of protected horticulture.
Topics covered include:
- The appropriate siting for a greenhouse enterprise, and covers greenhouse design principles and commercial glasshouses.
- Cladding materials, the development and use of polythene-clad tunnel structures, and greenhouse energy sources.
- The greenhouse envir…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785001857 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178500185X |
| Author: | Thady Barrett |
| Publisher: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 487g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Thady Barrett
Thady Barrett started his career at the former ADAS Experimental Horticulture Stations at Luddington and Lee Valley in the UK while studying horticulture at Writtle College in Essex. Subsequently, he gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s NDH in Commercial Horticulture [now known as the MHort (RHA)] and an MHort degree. For many years Thady has been a member of the International Plant Producer’s Society and has served as one of the Society’s area secretaries. An expert in growing salad crops, ornamental plants and cut flowers, including chrysanthemums, for twenty years he was a senior lecturer in commercial horticulture at Writtle College. He is now a horticultural consultant and provides practical and technical advice to small and medium-sized ornamental plant nurseries.
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