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.
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.
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
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00LJDUWQ4?cache=88ff4833559e0777fc598d5392c8b7fd&pi=SY200_QL40&qid=1405518478&sr=1-3#ref=mp_s_a_1_3
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
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
or If you're not on mobile...here's the regular site link for the US
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_
Saw this in Glasshouse Greenhouse - so cool! I really want to go someday.
Buy this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Greenhouse-Hoophouse-Growers-Handbook-Production/dp/1603586377/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?
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:
For earthships/earth-sheltered homes, I recommend these books:
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!
Greenhouses for Homeowners and Gardeners (NRAES, No. 137)
This book is indispensable.
Shadow in the Greenhouse?
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-greenhouse-Helen-Girvan/dp/0664324789
I know very little but check this book out: Greenhouse Gardener's Companion, Revised: Growing Food & Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace
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the ball red books are not bad at all.
http://www.amazon.com/Ball-RedBook-Volume-Crop-Production/dp/1883052351
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.
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.