Ball Field Guide to Diseases of Greenhouse Ornamentals

Ball Field Guide to Diseases of Greenhouse Ornamentals
Author: Margery Daughtrey
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Greenhouse plants
ISBN: 9780962679636

The BALL FIELD GUIDE TO DISEASES OF GREENHOUSE ORNAMENTALS is designed to help greenhouse growers correctly & quickly identify problems that develop in greenhouse foliage & flower crops. It also helps growers to make a correct diagnosis & avoid needless application of inappropriate chemical controls. This book features over 500 color photographs, arranged alphabetically by common plant name, that illustrate the most common disease problems growers face. Similar diseases are placed side-by-side for each species so that similar problems can be compared.

Greenhouse Technology and Management

Greenhouse Technology and Management
Author: Nicolás Castilla
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2013
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1780641036

Translation of the second ed.: Invernaderos de plaastico: tecnologaia y manejo.

Greenhouse Gardener's Companion

Greenhouse Gardener's Companion
Author: Shane Smith
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2000
Genre: Greenhouse gardening
ISBN: 9781555914509

The director of Cheyenne Botanic Gardens and author of The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse has produced a practical, comprehensive guide to making the most of any 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, pollination, growth, and scheduling for flower or fruit production. There are chapters on problems, diseases, and insects, and lists of associations, mail-order suppliers, and sun averages during the year across the country. As a Wyoming gardener, he puts a good deal of emphasis on using the greenhouse in summer as well as in winter, but this is a useful, practical guide for readers in most of the continental United States.

Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming

Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming
Author: National Academy of Engineering
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 945
Release: 1992-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0309043867

Global warming continues to gain importance on the international agenda and calls for action are heightening. Yet, there is still controversy over what must be done and what is needed to proceed. Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming describes the information necessary to make decisions about global warming resulting from atmospheric releases of radiatively active trace gases. The conclusions and recommendations include some unexpected results. The distinguished authoring committee provides specific advice for U.S. policy and addresses the need for an international response to potential greenhouse warming. It offers a realistic view of gaps in the scientific understanding of greenhouse warming and how much effort and expense might be required to produce definitive answers. The book presents methods for assessing options to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, offset emissions, and assist humans and unmanaged systems of plants and animals to adjust to the consequences of global warming.

Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem

Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem
Author: Robert Jastrow
Publisher: Jameson Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1990
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780915463589

Provides scientific analyses which examine changes in the atmosphere over the past 100 years and offers insight on what to expect for the next 100 years

Greenhouse: Coping with Climate Change

Greenhouse: Coping with Climate Change
Author: WJ Bouma
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 659
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0643105735

Consideration of climate change deals increasingly with impacts and responses, and therefore involves a wide range of technical issues and a diverse community of experts. One of the challenges faced is that of ensuring effective communication between these different areas of expertise. For example, climate change studies require new types of collaboration between carbon cycle modellers and economists, and between meteorologists and coastal geomorphologists. Furthermore, there is a need to distil balanced assessments ranging across many disciplines for the benefit of all policymakers.Greenhouse: Coping with Climate Change brings together the contributions of many experts to the climate change debate. This book is a landmark publication summarising our understanding of climate change issues as they affect Oceania. It contains review papers that report on the status of knowledge, methodologies and developments; and a selection of focused papers that expand on specific issues and present significant new developments of wide general interest and relevance to the region.

Optimal Control of Greenhouse Cultivation

Optimal Control of Greenhouse Cultivation
Author: Gerrit van Straten
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2010-11-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1420059637

Greenhouse control system manufacturers produce equipment and software with hundreds of settings and, while they hold training courses on how to adjust these settings, there is as yet no integrated instruction on when or why. Despite rapid growth in the greenhouse industry, growers are still faced with a multitude of variables and no unifying frame

Plant Nutrition of Greenhouse Crops

Plant Nutrition of Greenhouse Crops
Author: Cees Sonneveld
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2009-09-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9048125324

Greenhouse cultivation is noted for its high uptake of minerals, consistent climatic conditions, exclusion of natural precipitation and control of salt accumulation. Acknowledging that plant nutrition in greenhouse cultivation differs in many essentials from field production, this volume details specific information about testing methods for soils and substrates in a greenhouse environment. It does so while offering a universally applicable analysis. This is based on the composition of the soil and substrate solutions, methods for the interpretation of tissue tests, and crop responses on salinity and water supply in relation to fertilizer application. Fertilizer additions, related to analytical data of soil and substrate samples, are presented for a wide range of vegetable and ornamental crops. The subject is especially apt now as substrate growing offers excellent possibilities for the optimal use of water and nutrients, as well as the potential for sustainable production methods for greenhouse crops.