Building Your Own Greenhouse (Greenhouse Basics) by Mark Freeman

by Mark Freeman

The fundamentals of assembling a greenhouse and custom designing it to the gardener's needs, from simple cold frames to large free-standing and attached-to-the-house structures.

Genres: Gardening, Construction

Mass Market Paperback

First published March 31, 1997

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Reviews

[Kyle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good drawings but not highly technical. It is a good source of inspiration and encouragement for building your own greenhouse. It does convey the point that basically anyone can build a greenhouse.

[Guy · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book has some detailed instructions for building techniques, but I found the greenhouse designs proposed as case studies were generic and uninspiring. Since the designs presented are supposed to exist, they would have been better served with photographs than the rough pen drawings included. Really, the book falls completely short in terms of the quality of illustration.

[Kayleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very readable, common-sense book. It gave me some ideas and pointers I hadn't thought about. It would help you with ideas for anything from a basic storm-window coldframe to an ornate orangeary. Now I need to find a copy to keep on my shelf.