Best greenhouses books according to redditors

We found 30 Reddit comments discussing the best greenhouses books. We ranked the 14 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Greenhouses:

u/dave9199 · 54 pointsr/preppers

If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...

(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)


Medical:

Where there is no doctor

Where there is no dentist

Emergency War Surgery

The survival medicine handbook

Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine

Special Operations Medical Handbook

Food Production

Mini Farming

encyclopedia of country living

square foot gardening

Seed Saving

Storey’s Raising Rabbits

Meat Rabbits

Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step

Storey’s Chicken Book

Storey Dairy Goat

Storey Meat Goat

Storey Ducks

Storey’s Bees

Beekeepers Bible

bio-integrated farm

soil and water engineering

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation

Food Preservation and Cooking

Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing

Steve Rinella’s Small Game

Ball Home Preservation

Charcuterie

Root Cellaring

Art of Natural Cheesemaking

Mastering Artesian Cheese Making

American Farmstead Cheesemaking

Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse

Wild Fermentation

Art of Fermentation

Nose to Tail

Artisan Sourdough

Designing Great Beers

The Joy of Home Distilling

Foraging

Southeast Foraging

Boletes

Mushrooms of Carolinas

Mushrooms of Southeastern United States

Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast


Tech

farm and workshop Welding

ultimate guide: plumbing

ultimate guide: wiring

ultimate guide: home repair

off grid solar

Woodworking

Timberframe Construction

Basic Lathework

How to Run A Lathe

Backyard Foundry

Sand Casting

Practical Casting

The Complete Metalsmith

Gears and Cutting Gears

Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment

Machinery’s Handbook

How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic

Electronics For Inventors

Basic Science


Chemistry

Organic Chem

Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving

Ham Radio

AARL Antenna Book

General Class Manual

Tech Class Manual


MISC

Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft

Contact!

Nuclear War Survival Skills

The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm

u/kjoneslol · 4 pointsr/Survival

Ray Mears is the man to watch and read if you are thinking about long term sustainable survival.

If you are thinking about eventually getting out of the primitive I would suggest adapting the practices of permaculture for your situation (and the cheaper condensed version though just as good!).

Things like a compost toilet and digesting methane for fuel might be things you'd like. There's the Humanure Handbook which I have read from front to cover several times and I highly recommend it. I also experimented with humanure and have nothing but good things to say about it. Anyway, I don't want to talk to much so Google permaculture, there's a /r/permaculture subreddit, read, research, think a lot about what you're going to do before you do it and good luck.

EDIT: here's a good book about a permanent shelter you might like

u/bjelkeman · 2 pointsr/aquaponics

Have you seen this book. Very useful for this type of scale (I think we have four copies in our team). https://www.amazon.com/Aquaponic-Farmer-Complete-Operating-Commercial/dp/086571858X

u/Abell421 · 2 pointsr/homestead

I found the book I used to build my little greenhouse in a weekend. It's free on Kindle unlimited and there is a video on YouTube (you still need the book but it helps). https://www.amazon.com/Build-Portable-Greenhouse-Garden-without-ebook/dp/B00CBNG03K/ref=nodl_

u/maryland_handshaker · 2 pointsr/cactus

Saw this in Glasshouse Greenhouse - so cool! I really want to go someday.

u/ItsJustaMetaphor · 2 pointsr/Permaculture

There's an out-of-print book simply called "Passive Solar Energy." It's got lots of great information; I bet it will be just what you are looking for as far as the physics of solar energy and thermosiphoning (which is essentially "heated fluid rises because it's less dense than cooler fluid"). I'm an engineer and I really think that book gives you all you need to know to have a basic working knowledge of solar heat gain and how various systems of solar energy capture operate. Here's a list of books I have found helpful and/or interesting in regards to solar energy:



  • Passive Solar Energy - The top link is a link to pdf's of the chapters of the book.

  • The Passive Solar Energy Book - VERY in-depth on passive solar theory, design, and construction.

  • Solar Air Heating Systems - Another design and construction book, specifically about solar air heating.


  • The Solar Greenhouse Book - Name says it all. It's all about passive solar greenhouses.

  • A Golden Thread - Really interesting book about how man has worked with the sun in building design through the history of civilization.


    For earthships/earth-sheltered homes, I recommend these books:

  • Earth-Sheltered Housing Design - One of the most detailed and complete books on earth-sheltering available. Not earthships, but the same ideas apply.

  • Earth-Sheltered Houses - Another essential book for earth-sheltering houses. Author has built several of his own and remains an authority in the subject as well as cordwood building, for which he has also written books.

  • Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouses - Combines two subjects for a very Permaculture-appropriate building technique.

  • Earthship Vol I and II - Needs no explaining.


    From my experience in university studying fluid dynamics, I recommend not going any deeper into the subject than what you would find in the solar energy books I listed above. The subject is math-heavy, and the academic study of the topic is not going to help you with what you are interested in with permaculture. It's kind of like studying the abstract physics/math of electromagnetism when all you want to do is wire a house.

    Hope this helps!
u/ricklikes2drum · 2 pointsr/architecture

This book is indispensable.

u/amazon-converter-bot · 1 pointr/FreeEBOOKS

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u/ofuckinghell · 1 pointr/Greenhouses
u/KarolynFuchs · 1 pointr/Aquariums

Heh. I like koi myself, but if you re-read what I wrote, I was trying to describe an aquarium set into a landscaped greenhouse (as a tropical house). Koi might in fact damage the plants too much to be useful for what I'm describing, and the pool required would be huge.

The idea is a moderate sized greenhouse as a planted/scaped space to sit in, with an open-topped aquarium such as yours blending into the landscape. The book below describes setting up a humid, room-sized viv for butterflies, which are at risk of drowning or being eaten by fishes, but the principles at work apply for birds and herps also. You know the sort - harmless and free roaming casquehead lizards, small Phelsuma gecko sp, bananaquits, euphonias, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Living-Tropical-Greenhouse-Creating-Butterflies/dp/1861081235

I miss those kinds of projects.

u/Trichostema · 1 pointr/gardening

This looks really interesting, looks like he suggests creating a cold sink, which would draw cold air downward, which would get warmed by the ambient temperature of the earth.