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How to set up your greenhouse for maximum production.(Brief Article)
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Countryside & Small Stock Journal
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March 1, 1999
- Author:
- Miller, Elizabeth; Miller, Crow
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1999 Countryside Publications Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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ELIZABETH & CROW MILLER
PO Box 3080 SAG HARBOR NY 11963
Crop timing and placement are important in a greenhouse. Space is at a premium, microclimates shift, and seasons flow into each other.
Spring comes to the greenhouse when the days begin to lengthen, about mid-February in Long Island. If the greenhouse has been running all winter, beds are probably full of the last of the fall or winter-planted greens. Pots of herbs may be scattered here and there, and if artificial lights are installed, new seedlings may be almost ready to transplant into bed positions.
Scheduling seedlings for outside gardening is a matter of counting backward from the time they'll be ...
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Create ideal greenhouse for plants
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The greenhouse effect Having a haven for plants allows gardeners to tinker...
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Questions cropping up about Peyton greenhouse/ After visit, commissioner...
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the greenhouse effect
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