ACF Greenhouses
This for-profit web site provides different types of greenhouse accessories for the home grower.

Aeroponics. Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses Magazine
This article will give you a good overview with appropriate pros and cons of various systems of aeroponics which are available.

Agricultural Resources Center (ARC) and Pesticide Education Project (PESTed)
This is a non-profit organization working in North Carolina since 1986 to minimize human and environmental exposure to toxic pesticides.

Alaska Committee for Noxious and Invasive Plants Management (CNIPM)
This website is dedicated to stopping the spread of Invasive plants in Alaska.

Alaska Exotic Plants Clearinghouse, (CNIPM)
This site is sponsored by several government agencies and is dedicated to mapping invasive weed infestations throughout the state.

Alaska Sun
This site is useful for anyone wishing to calculate the heat losses/gains into their greenhouse.

Alternative Greenhouse Crops. University of Florida, PDF
A website that considers all aspects one should take in account when looking for an alternative plant for greenhouse production.

Alzheimer's Garden Plan: Good Garden Design for Safety, Reflection & Exercise
An article about how to design a gardening space for the special needs of a dementia/Alzheimer's patient. Fully adaptable to greenhouse OR outside garden considerations. Provides links to example gardens and related websites.

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
Several of the sections are devoted to greenhouse management issues, including the use of solar energy for heating and cooling a greenhouse, hydroponics in the greenhouse, and organic herb and vegetable production in the greenhouse.

Arcosanti Project, The
Ascosanti is a prototype town ihas 5-7 acres of south-facing greenhouses for food production and collecting energy to support the town.

Attached Solar Greenhouses
This site is about solar greenhouse that can have the primary function of heating an adjacent building by mechanical means and storing it for use in the building.

Backyard Gardener: Greenhouses Part II
Selecting a Greenhouse Part II was interesting because of the simple laymen terms for the construction materials, location in relation to sunlight and good drainage, ventilation, and cooling via shade and swamp coolers.

Biosphere 2
It is the western campus of Columbia University's Earth Institute and provides a place where researchers can address questions regarding earth's many ecosystems.

Bubble-Insulated Greenhouse
This site discusses a technique for heating greenhouses in cold climates without burning fossil fuels.

Building a Foundation
This site lists the functions of a greenhouse foundation, discusses several different kinds of foundations, and the importance of achieving them.

Building the solar greenhouse
The article provides basic rules for solar heated greenhouses.

Carbon Dioxide in Greenhouses
This is a comprehensive guide on supplementing carbon dioxide in greenhouses.

Charley's Greenhouses and Garden Supply
This site provides lots of useful information on most aspects of greenhouse gardening.

Citrus Fact Sheet, David’s Exotic Plants
This site is provides a list of tips for taking care of citrus species.

Climatron Conservatory: Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Gardens websites contain all information about the gardens both outdoor and indoor expositions and about greenhouses used as a propagation centers.

Community Greenhouse, Urban Agriculture Notes. The City Farmer.
This is a great web site for gardening with limited space. The greenhouse article about Inuvik caught my attention because of the climate similarities to Fairbanks.

Community Supported Agriculture
CSA reflects an innovative and resourceful strategy to connect local farmers with local consumers; develop a regional food supply and strong local economy; maintain a sense of community; encourage land stewardship; and honor the knowledge and experience of growers and producers working with small to medium farms.

Controlling Plant Height Without Chemicals.                                            
When plants are started too soon, their growth needs to be slowed down. Rather than using PGR treatments, many prefer natural ways of controlling plant height.

Controlled Environment Agriculture, Basics Greenhouse Structures
Articles at this site appear to be appropriate for students studying greenhouses or agriculture in general.

Cornell Greenhouse Horticulture
The Greenhouse Program Website at Cornell University provides information under the general categories of - 1) Crops and Culture, 2) Structures and Equipment, 3) Pests and Diseases, and 4) Business and Marketing.

Dealing with the High Cost of Energy for Greenhouse Operations
This is a comprehensive site for commercial greenhouse producers about conserving energy, choosing fuel types, changing growing practices and recovering costs associated with heating.

Disabled blossom at greenhouse training center
This article highlights the remarkable accomplishments of the 'We Grow Dreams Greenhouse and Garden Center', a non-profit functional wholesale and retail greenhouse and garden center that provides vocational training and paid employment opportunities for developmentally and physically disabled adults.

Economic Benefit of Greenhouse Production of Peppers in Soilless Culture
This site contains an article analyzing the feasibility of growing peppers in greenhouses in Florida.

Energy Conservation in Glasshouses PDF
This publication presents guidelines for energy conservation in greenhouses.

Envirocept greenhouses
At EnviroCept Greenhouses webpage one can find interesting information on their products together with their catalog.

Environmental Control of Greenhouses PDF
This article covers most all the aspects involved in greenhouse construction.

EPA - National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center Nurseries and Greenhouses
It gives facts and figures on greenhouses and nurseries.

Ethylene in the Greenhouse - Causes, Symptoms and Prevention PDF
Ethylene may be harmful for your crop.

Evaluating Supplemental Light for Your Greenhouse. PDF
This is site includes information about what aspects to take into consideration in order to select the best lighting system for various purposes.

Farm Management
This site contains cost of production information for the greenhouse production of geranium seedlings.

Fungus Gnats are Serious Pests
Fungus gnats were once thought to be a nuisance pest only in the greenhouse. However, as fungus gnats were shown to cause direct feeding damage to crops, they are now considered a serious pest.

Forcing Daffodils: Originating from Spain and Portugal
This site explains the very basic procedure for forcing daffodils.

Gandhi of greenhouses, Part I and II, The
This is about sustainable farming using a passive solar greenhouse.

Garden Forever
This website provides links to information on general growing practices and tips, horticultural therapy, cross-generational gardening, tool adaptation, and gardening with disabilities such as impaired vision, arthritis, allergies and asthma.

Gardener’s Supply Company
An on-line gardening supply store with tips on green housing and all types of growing.

Geothermal Greenhouses in Kyushu, Japan
This website describes several greenhouses that use geothermal heat for energy.

Germinanat Sowing in South Africa
This site gives several methods for increasing plant yield for large crops.

Green Air Products
The web site contains specialty products and information for the control and management of automated plant growth environments.

Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Center
This site offers interesting online publications and annual reports.

Greenhouse buying guide
Packed with great questions to ask yourself before purchasing a greenhouse, and has numerous AWESOME greenhouse calculators for various things like airflow, heating, etc.

Greenhouse Cucumbers PDF
This site is for someone who wants to increase production of cucumbers in a greenhouse.

Greenhouse for Your Home, A
This site lists the pro's and con's of different greenhouse styles and coverings.  It also gives tips on choosing a site for building a greenhouse.

Greenhouse Gardener's Companion
This is a reference site for a book for beginner greenhouse gardeners.

Greenhouse Growing Tips: How to Select the Correct size of Exhaust Fan
This site has an article that is specific on the importance of calculating the correct volume of a greenhouse to choose the correct ventilation and fan system by cubic feet per minute.

Greenhouse Humidification
This website is primarily trying to sell its TrueFog, USA Greenhouse Humidification products, but it also manages to serve a good deal of information regarding the importance of water stress and the various ways to avoid it.

Greenhouse Information - University of California
Page contains links to 3 PDF documents, "Year Round Gardening with a Greenhouse", "Greenhouse Vegetable Production" and "Small Plastic Greenhouses".

Greenhouse Management
It has information on condensation problems, cooling calculations, crop records, dealing with summer heat, fertilizer calculations, fertilizing crops, monitoring fertilizer injectors, watering, temperature, and much more.

Greenhouse Management Database
It gives information on plant nutrition and fertilization, insect and pest control, plant diseases, lighting, temperature, CO2 controls, media, and growth regulators. It is an alright website on information on greenhouse management issues.

Greenhouse Production of Bananas in Morocco
For anyone interested in the growing bananas for profit, this is a nice place to start.

Greenhouse Production of Rosmarius officinalis L. PDF
This is a master’s thesis detailing some of the challenges and techniques for commercial and household production of Rosemary. Details uses of fertilizer and optimal root and chute growth in relation to sunlight, gas composition, and fertilizer concentrations.

Greenhouse raspberry production guide for winter or year-round production
This site provides information on propagationtion, variety selection and the pros and cons of growing raspberries in the greenhouse.

Greenhouse Seedling Production Recommendations.  South Carolina Tobacco Growers Guide 2006.
This publication by the Clemson Extension Service is aimed at commercial tobacco growers, in particular, those producing seedlings in greenhouses.

Greenhouse Substrates and Fertilization PDF
Good discussion of how greenhouse soil mixes and container size effect watering needs, and about fertilizer needs and fertilization strategies for greenhouse plants.

Greenhouse Vegetables
This is a great site about the greenhouse commercial crops in British Columbia.

Greenhouse Ventilation 14
This is an in-depth article about greenhouse ventilation, with discussion about the purposes, and variations during the different seasons.

Greenhouse Ventilation 30
This article describes seasonal ventilation (spring, summer, fall winter), ventilation volume rates, and air movement within the greenhouse.

Greenhouses and Ferns
This site starts off with a short history on greenhouses, and works its way through modern greenhouse styles, building materials, and coverings.

H2othouse Inc. Greenhouses
This web site has a lot of information for the basic home gardener interested in building a small home greenhouse. One of the most helpful sites is the link to "Plans."

Have algae met their match?
This article provides information about algal control in greenhouse irrigation lines with Selectrocide, a chlorine dioxide product.

Herbs: Organic Greenhouse Production”  ATTRA. PDF
This publication offers advice for commercial greenhouse owners wishing to market organic herbs.

HerbNet
Links to dozens of gardens, specifically herb gardens, are all listed by state with a description.

High Altitude Gardening
This is a great site that contains an unbelievable amount of information on building and maintaining greenhouses in adverse weather conditions.

Hilton Bialek Habitat, The
The Hilton Bialek Habitat includes a native plant greenhouse, shadehouse, organic vegetable and bee garden, outdoor ampitheatre, and 10 acres of land in various states of native habitat restoration.

Home Hydroponics
This is a nice succinct site to give a novice the basic understanding of how hydroponics work and different systems that can be used.

Horticulture
This site discusses the horticulture, and greenhouse production as a product of the horticultural industry of Finland in 2000.

Horticultural Research International—Norway
Greenhouse crop production is also important, particularly in northern areas, and cut flower production is increasing.

Horticultural Therapy: Bringing New Growth to People with Disabilities.
A Rutgers University Extension Agent identified the community's disabled members and in collaboration with Master Gardeners designed and implemented a horticultural therapy program to fill the needs.

How to build a cheap and easy greenhouse
This site has a step by step guide on how to build a greenhouse.

Hydrofarm Horticultural Products
This site has tons of information for the hydroponics grower.

Hydroponics Online
This is a very multifaceted and interactive web site about hydroponics gardening.

Hydroponicum Garden of the Future, The
The website includes information on the Scottish northern-latitude demonstration center,  equipment explanations and illustrations, recent news, an on-line grower's forum and information exchange, and an extensive shop of equipment for purchase.

If compliance of "Kyoto Protocol" is a problem, we have the solution!
This website has a lot of information on Solar photovoltaic and wind power, and hydroponics, for use by greenhouses.

Integrated Pest Management , University of Connecticut
This site has numerous links to all different kinds of articles categorized into; vegetable, flower, insect, and disease.

Integrated Pest Mangagement: Greenhouse Insects.
This is a simple site with a wealth of information and facts dealing with 15 major greenhouse insect pests.

Integrated Pest Management for Greenhouse Crops
This site contains useful information on IPM (integrated pest management).

International Greenhouse Company
This company provides and builds greenhouses for both hobby and commercial use.

Interior Gardens Inc.
A company specializing in hydroponics, grow lights organic nutrients and supplies.

Introduction to Polyethylene Greenhouse Films
This web site offers SUN SELECTOR™ Polyethylene (LDPE) greenhouse films for sale; however, the description of all the features of their product is useful to growers choosing greenhouse glazing.

LED's New Lighting Alternative for Greenhouses PDF
When technology catches up with us, LED lights will probably be used in greenhouses. This article extols the benefits in LED lighting and compares growth rates of plants under HID and LED lights.

Mainau GmbH Insel Mainau
The website of the Island Mainau Botanical Garden, located in southern Germany.

Maintenance Guide for Greenhouse Ventilation, Evaporative Cooling Heating Systems
This article gives some detailed instructions for proper maintenance of ventilation evaporative cooling and heating systems.

Master Composter
It has links that will lead you to all the information you need to start a compost pile, to purchase supplies, other types of composting (including using worms) and bunches more information.

Millson Forestry Service
This site contains information regarding site preparation, planting, and stand maintenance of Jack pine, Red pine, White pine, Black spruce and White spruce.

Montreal Botanical Garden
One of the World’s biggest botanical gardens’ websites contain a huge amount of information about all exhibitions, scientific activities and programs taking place in the garden.

NSCU Extension Service Publications
The index materials range from nutrient problems to controlling bedding plant height.

National Gardening Association's School Greenhouse Guide
This website is geared towards educators who are interested in using greenhouses as part of the school curriculum.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
It contains information on climate, geophysical data, oceanographic data, radar data, satellite records and weather station records.

Natural Enemies for Suppression of Greenhouse Pests
This site offers an alternative to using pesticides to control greenhouse pests.

The New England Vegetable Management Guide
This guide is written for commercial vegetable growers. It includes information
about pest and disease control, soil properties, irrigation and fertilizer use
as well as organic production methods.

North American Greenhouse Tomatoes Emerge as Major Market Force
This article is about the rapidly growing greenhouse tomato industry, and its importance to the North American fresh tomato industry.

North Carolina State University - Greenhouse Vegetable Production
Details on tomato production, managing the environment, ethylene, biological control, fertilization and physiological disorders.

Northern Greenhouse Sales
This site is a sales site for greenhouses specifically designed for northern climates.

Ohio State University Extension
Great greenhouse information on everything from building to maintaining to pest management.

Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)
This site is useful for anyone who is interested in growing and being certified organic.

Passive Solar Heating and Cooling Manual
This is website provides details about passive solar heating of greenhouses.

People Who Garden in Glass Houses
This article describes and compares some significant differences between European and American greenhouses designed for personal use.

Photoperiod Control Systems for Greenhouse Crops
This website serves as a fact-sheet about photoperiod control systems for greenhouse crops.

Photoselective Greenhouse Covers PDF
This paper discusses the use of growth regulating photoselective greenhouse covers as a way to control plant size for commercial production.

Planning and Building a Greenhouse
This is a site designed to assist people in planning and building a greenhouse structure to fit their needs.

Plant Propagation: An Overview of Asexual Reproduction
The site has descriptions of several types of propagation techniques.

Problem: Spider Mites. IPM of Alaska, The
This is a great site geared specifically toward Alaska and pest management.

Purdue University Floriculture Extension
This web-site offers a comprehensive list of links to other university web-sites related to managing a greenhouse.

R&D Research/demonstration Greenhouse using Methane Gas from a Landfill for Co-generation
This site describes a research greenhouse in New Jersey that tests a variety of systems, but their main focus is energy conservation and using methane gas from landfills for both heating and lighting.

Raspberries:  a new greenhouse crop
This website briefly discusses raspberry plants, production, pollination, long-canes, yield, and potential pest problems within the greenhouse environment.

Root Zone Heating for Greenhouse Crops
This site discusses the use of root-zone heating as a cost saving method in greenhouse production that focuses on optimum root temperature by distributing heat to bench and floor growing systems.

Rutgers
The “presentations” page of this university site has powerpoint presentations on a range of greenhouse topics, from energy conservation to lighting and ventilation.

Seed Germination Database
This is a reference for seed propagation, a wealth of information, including depths to sow seeds, amount of moisture needed and other pertinent information.

Seeders and Transplanters:  How do they benefit the greenhouse operation?
This site is an online magazine that contains a variety of articles about growing tips, products, technologies, pesticides, and other growers concerning the greenhouse industry.

Sherry's Green House
Send Sherry and Linda your query or comments pertaining to gardening, greenhouses, and plants and associated critters or just read other peoples' questions and comments and Sherry and Linda's answers.

Siebring Commercial Greenhouse Equipment
This Indiana based company specializes in large scale greenhouse equipment including heaters, pressure washers, sprayers, soil sterilization equipment, etc.

Slice of Paradise, A
An article talking about an unique greenhouse built as a part of Botanical garden in Prague, Czech Republic.

Solar Heating and Cooling in the Growing Dome Greenhouse
This is a commercial site selling greenhouses.

Starting a greenhouse business
This website has helpful tips, and information, to guide the entrepreneur in matters such as determining the customer base, greenhouse selection, construction costs, areas for cost variance, operating costs and cash flow, and tables to go along.

Straw Bale Greenhouse
This idea is said to be an "energy-efficient, sustainably-designed greenhouse". There is a link to the fact sheet concerning the construction of this greenhouse on this website as well.

Subterranean heating and cooling system explained.
This website offers helpful information concerning underground heating and cooling systems.

Starting a Greenhouse Business. Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
This article considers the many factors involved in a commercial greenhouse business, giving general guidelines to help you get started with a plan.

Strawberry
This article provides helpful information about the growing requirements of strawberries in general as well as the specifics of hydroponic culture.

Strawberries: Organic and IPM Options, Horticulture Production Guide
This publication contains information about both field and greenhouse production of strawberries.

Sun Country Greenhouse Company
This site offers kits and plans for handcrafted cedar/Lexan hobby greenhouses.

Sundance Greenhouse Supply—Polycarbonate Greenhouses and Sunrooms
If you want to cover your greenhouse with polycarbonate, or if you want to look into it, this site is a good starting point.

Texas Greenhouse Management Handbook
Gives information on greenhouse structures, heating, the growing media and pH, and irrigation.

Tips for Building Year-Round Greenhouses in Cold Climates
This site provides a thorough discussion on how to plan for year-round home greenhouse production in cold climates.

Tips on Choosing New Naturally Ventilated Greenhouse Designs.
This article discusses both the advantages and disadvantages of a natural occurring ventilation system in a greenhouse.

University of Arkansas On-Line Greenhouse Management Class. 2008.
This is an entire on-line greenhouse management class, complete with self-tests and links at the end of each module.

University of California's integrated pest management program
It gives information on many problematic weeds, pests, and diseases that occur in floriculture and ornamental nurseries.

U.S. Global Resources
This site calls itself the U.S. Global Resources site, but its main function is to sell you everything you need for a hobby to commercial greenhouse operation.

Vent Before Greenhouse Problems Get to You and Your Plants
The website has reprinted many of Linden Staciokas’s articles from the Heartland section of the Fairbanks Daily News Miner.

Water Irrigation for Nurseries and Greenhouses. University of Arkansas PDF
A nifty site for knowing whats in the water you may be using,why some of it is good for the plants and why some of it is not so good.

WHAT IS ATTRA?
ATTRA National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service provides information and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States.

Why use supplemental lighting for indoor or greenhouse gardening.
This website discusses the applications of supplemental lighting, including when to use them and what purpose they serve.

Winter protection of tender Rhododendrons
This site tells helpful ways to overwinter Rhododendrons in a moderate winter climate.

Yvonne’s Greenhouse Home Page
This is an ideal web site for beginners who would like to build a greenhouse in their backyard.

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University of Arkansas On-Line Greenhouse Management Class
This is an entire on-line greenhouse management class, complete with self-tests and links at the end of each module.

Horticulture As Therapy Website from the Homewood Health Centre
This page link has several 'how to' PDFs of fun greenhouse activities like terrarium projects, botanical printmaking, plant propagation, and dried flowers.

Discover How Biblical Gardening Brings Healing
This faith-based gardening is Christian-based, but it seems like the module could be adapted to any religion/faith based on a written history.

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