Plant Nursery and Greenhouse Books
This Lübeck Haus Bookstore catalogue page has horticultural books about starting and operating a plant nursery and greenhouse. These books cover the business of nursery management, running a nursery, starting and managing a wholesale plant nursery, operating a greenhouse, making money with a nursery, plant propagation, and growing nursery stock.
In addition, we have included several excellent books on building a greenhouse and breeding new vegetable varieties covering classical plant breeding techniques and genetic engineering.
The following list of books were carefully selected by our research staff for nursery workers, botanists, biologists, the do-it-yourself propagator, and home gardeners. These books were selected because their text material is clearly written, easy to follow, and usually are accompanied with instructive photographs and detailed illustrations. And that if followed closely
by the reader, the reader should be able to perform the work necessary to complete a successful propagation project.
These books will be of interest to nursery owners and operators, wholesale plant growers, horticulture students, backyard hobbyist, and advanced gardeners who dream of turning their passion for plants into a job they love.
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Starting & Operating A Successful Plant Nursery
- Growing Profits: How to Start & Operate a Backyard Nursery
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- -Michael Harlan, Linda Harlan / Paperback 216 pages, 2nd Edition / Published July 2000
This book provides practical and easy to understand information for startinmg and working a part time nursery. Learn how to start a nursery in your backyard with little capitual investment. In an area of about 1,000 square feet, this book explains how and shows the reader that it is possible to generate over $5,000 worth of plants in a single growing season. Covers primarily how to grow and sell flowers, herbs, and shrubs.
While the basic ideas were written for a part time business, the principals can be expanded to generate $20,000.00 and more per year. Covers and explains the value of "time" in the nursery business. If you expect to make money with your greenhouse, or with your nursery business, this is one book to get.
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- So You Want to Start a Nursery
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- -Tony Avent / Hardcover 340 pages / Published July 2003
This book offers a realistic overview of the tools and knowledge needed to succeed in the nursery business. The author presents a thoughtful, realistic overview on how to go about building and managing an enterprise based upon cultivating, marketing, and selling live plants. Emphasizing the planning and business aspects that help determine a nursery's success or failure, the author outlines six basic skills necessary for success, and four reasons that businesses sometimes fail. Topics include business plans, essential skills, mission statements, structuring a business, insurance and tax issues, choosing a location, wholesale to mail-order issues, US ports of entry, and much more.
The author also discusses the merits and disadvantages of retail, wholesale, mail-order, and liner operations. Readers of this book will obtain the tools they need to make a business plan of their own. This practicle guide book should be a must-read for persons planning to start a nursery plant business.
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- Nursery Management: Administration and Culture
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- -Harold Davidson, Roy Mecklenburg, Curtis Peterson / Hardcover 529 pages, 4th Edition / Published June 1999
Written by a Michigan professor emeritus of horticulture, a Florida horticultural consultant, and the citrus and environmental horticulture chairman at a Florida college, this text provides a thorough coverage of the nursery industry for those interested in starting or managing a wholesale plant nursery. Based on the authors' extensive and varied experiences in the field, input from nursery manager's across the country, and cutting-edge information from regional and state professional associations, this book provides both general and specific information on the full range of topics related to nursery management. Chapters are divided into four sections covering the industry and its development; the administration of the business, including goal-setting, employee issues, legislation, marketing, inventory, and shipping; and culture issues, including crop production, soil, nutrition, irrigation, and modification of plant growth.
Appendices include information on plant locators, addresses, and conversion tables.
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- Greenhouse Gardener's Companion: Growing Food and Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace
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- -Shane Smith, Marjorie C. Leggitt / Paperback 544 pages / Published April 2000
This book a practical, comprehensive guide to making the most of a greenhouse or garden room.
Addressing almost every aspect except the actual construction, Smith covers the greenhouse environment (light, humidity, temperature), interior design (plant placement, fans, drainage), individual plants and their propagation, ground beds and containers, pollination requirements, plant spacing and growth, and scheduling for flower or fruit production. Covers composting technique and manual pollination techniques.
Covers growing requirements for growing specific plants in a green house and sunrooms.
Discusses soil from the point of view of providing plants with a healthy root system. Covers soil pH and nutrients and organic soil amendments in beds and pots. The book provides coverage on pests and diseases control, for which the author recommends mostly organic and biologic controls.
This book provides good basic guidance on just about everything you might want to know about green house gardening.
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- Ortho's All About Greenhouses
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- -Ortho Publications / Paperback 96 pages / Published August 2001
This book is a complete basic guide to creating and using a greenhouse. Ortho's All About Greenhouses provides plans and building tips, advice on kits and equipment, and proven growing techniques.
Whether you are a home horticulturist wanting indoor growing space for orchids and blooming tropicals or a year-round site to grow vegetables and cut flowers, you can select, build and customize just the right plan with this guide book.
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- Greenhouses
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- -Fiona Gilsenan / Paperback 112 pages, 2nd Edition / Published January 2001
This book from Sunset Publishing orovides solid basic information for creating an environment for year-round plant growing or an indoor garden room to enjoy. Learn the basics of building your own structure, plant propagation, and much more.
This book has plenty of ideas and inspiration.
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- Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's & Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding & Seed Saving
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- -Carol Deppe / Paperback 367 pages, 2nd Edition / December 2000
This is an important book for serious gardeners and horticulturists. This book is very useful, interesting, well written and easy to understand. Explains the whole process of plant breeding and
creating new vegetable hybrids. Although successful plant breeding doesn't necessarily require a lot of time or garden space, it does require some expert knowledge. This book provides solid basic information. The technical chapters are well-crafted guides to the principles of genetics combined with practical and workable strategies for applying those principles. Especially useful are the sections on designing garden trials and on how to be certain you are indeed selecting for the traits you want. There are also detailed illustrated instructions showing how to breed eight popular vegetables: tomato, lettuce, pea, bean, corn, onions and relatives, cabbages and relatives, and squash/pumpkins.
It explains it very clearly and gardeners will find out that it isn't really difficult at all. Quite simple actually, and with some often remarkable rewards.
The author also shares many practical techniques, methods, and strategies, gleaned from years in the garden. These tips are invaluable. They get you thinking about ways that you could experiment and explore more with the garden resources you have. And when things don't go quite as hoped, you can usually eat your mistakes.
At the heart of any plant breeding venture is good seed saving practice. The author covers a number of factors you must handle properly if you are going to save your own seed and maintain vigorous, pure strains. The six new chapters added to this edition to cover this area take seed saving much farther than has been done elsewhere. There is a whole chapter devoted to selecting the individual plants from which you will want to save seed, while other chapters discuss isolation practices, the number of plants required, and other factors.
All in all, an informative, facinating, and most enjoyable book that is an essential guide for gardeners, small scale farmers, and horticulturists alike. An appendix contains essential data for breeding 801 cultivated vegetables and their wild relatives, useful information for all plant breeders.
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- The Northwest Gardeners' Resource Directory (9th Edition)
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- -Stephanie Feeney, Debra Prinzing (Editor) / Paperback 352 pages, 9th Edition / Published March 2002
This is the latest expanded, revised, edition of the most popular guide to everything for the gardeners in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.
Serious Northwest gardeners know that this is the definitive sourcebook for everthing pertaining to gardening.
This 9th edition has a major new feature: website addresses.
This directory includes:
- Nurseries: complete with addresses, hours, driving directions, and full descriptions
- International, national, and regional clubs and organizations for every conceivable horticultural interest
- Reviews of books and magazines
- Mail-order sources
- And much more
A must have for Pacific Northwest gardeners.
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