Here are the three steps to creating a Bell Jar. Scribe a circle on the jug with a glass cutter. To scribe an even mark, rest the handle of the glass cutter on a wooden block, box, or can at the desired height. Hold the blade firmly with your hand, ensuring the cutting wheel is … Read more
Nature is seldom cooperative with the greenhouse gardener in the winter. We need a lot of tricks, including the benefits of modern heating and ventilating methods, and we must stay alert to the possibilities of using the few days of good growing weather advantageously. As many greenhouse amateurs have learned, one slip in the supervision … Read more
What can be more heartwarming when winter comes than a greenhouse full of blooming plants? For that reason, more and more homeowners are acquiring greenhouses for the pleasure and relaxation they afford during this time of year. Growing plants in the greenhouse, no matter what kind, can be great fun. However, the more enthusiastic may … Read more
Every indoor plant enthusiast can recall being tempted into trying one of the many house plants requiring greenhouse conditions, only to find that no care can prevent rather sudden death. For many who own their homes, a greenhouse is an eventual answer. Greenhouses today can be fitted into almost anyone’s budget. Greenhouse gardening, however, is … Read more
Within the 300-odd botanical families in the whole, wide world of seed-bearing or flowering plants, a modest number of “sub-families” (genera) are delightfully and curiously exclusive. Some of these small clans have so few members in the botanical books, one wonders what nature had in mind when she made them, each with certain definite characteristics … Read more
My affirmative answer to the question, “Do you like to grow things?” has completely changed our family routine. It began about two years ago when we moved into a home in a countrified suburb. Before I knew it, carpenters were turning windows into doorways, cement mixers plowed across my lawn and large shipments of glass … Read more
Lots of people want a greenhouse, for one reason or another. Once the idea enters the mind, the home scene is not complete without the desired greenhouse. That is the way it happened to us! Our greenhouse was delivered mid-summer two years ago. It was an odd-looking shipment that consisted of a minimum of crates. … Read more
Some 40 years ago, when the material was difficult to obtain, I wanted a greenhouse. By scrounging around, my husband and I finally built one. It is 18′ by 30′ feet and 14′ feet high. To the west, I have added a 12′ by 15′ potting room which has windows all around. The south half … Read more
A greenhouse will furnish the climate to order. In a warm house, the pattern of the tropics can be followed. Near the edges and in the “toe” of a lean-to, cacti and succulents will flourish in the heat and develop their beauty in form and color. The larger epiphytic bromeliads, aloes, and euphorbias are happy … Read more
If it is the middle of September, there is still time to order tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths for forcing on the window sill, or in your greenhouse. Potted from mid to late October and left outdoors in a cold frame for a rooting period of eight to ten weeks, they may then be brought indoors … Read more