Home Greenhouse Revival Book Review – Practical Tips, Expert Instruction, Demystifies Greenhouse Growing

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Published on Tuesday, 01 September 2026 11:52

Written by Janet Walker

Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, Flowers, and Food, from Cool Springs Press, modernizes greenhouse growing, and throughout provides clear, detailed instructions, includes resources, and tips for seasonal planting to guarantee greenhouse success in any season.

Author Leslie F. Halleck, a Certified Professional Horticulturist, with nearly three decades experience, offers home garden aficionados the opportunity to take their gardening skills to the next level.

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Across 224 pages, she provides step-by-step guidelines from the thought process of building or buying a greenhouse, which vegetables and flowers can thrive, and which cannot, as many greenhouses plants are affected by the temperature.

Once growers move beyond the Introduction: manifesting the Greenhouse Dream, Home Greenhouse Revival is divided into two sections, Part 1 "Selecting and Setting Up Your Greenhouse," and included are Chapter 1 "Types of Greenhouses for Home Gardeners," Chapter 2 "Selecting the Right Greenhouse for You," Chapter 3, "Managing Growing Condition," and Chapter 4 "Growing Media and Plant Nutrition."

Throughout each of these chapters, gardeners will find the necessary tools to begin their greenhouse growing journey. Along with instructions of what type of greenhouse, size, shape, does it need heating, cooling, creating humidity, choosing the right growing media, which combines the best balance of water-holding capacity, aeration for root health, porosity for adequate drainage, nutrient holding capacity and CEC to balance fertilizer needs to maximize success.

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Part II "Growing in Your Greenhouse," of Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round, Flowers, and Food, introduces growers to the process of planting, including seedling care, vegetative asexual propagation, and onto Chapter 6, "Growing Seasonal Plants and Flowers," and offers suggestions on how to stretch your growing seasons, Chapter 7, "Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit Production," which offers ideas on types of fruit, herbs, and cool and warm temperature vegetables that can be grown in the gardener's climate.

Each of these chapters contain vibrant images of more than 75 plant profiles, along with an accompanying same page chart that walks readers through an explanation of the type of plant, propagation or how to begin the planting (seeds or cuttings), timing and days to harvest, temperature, light, humidity, water media and PH, Fertilizer and EC, how much space is needed, any type of dangers, pests and diseases, and additional growing tips.

Chapter 8, "Growing and Overwintering Tropical and Other Houseplants," which offers the same extensive tips for growing tropical plants in a non-tropical environment and using the greenhouse to create the necessary heat, humidity to create growth and Chapter 9, "Greenhouse Disease and Pest Prevention and Control," which covers every gardeners nightmare, pests and disease, Halleck also includes methods to prevent infestations, Greenhouse Biosecurity, Insect control, Biological Control and Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Insects, Greenhouse disease and disease control.

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Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, Flowers, and Food provides gardening enthusiasts, and fresh fruits and vegetables growers the opportunity to put their goals and dreams into action, and through expert guidance guides individuals toward realization of these ambitions.

Professional horticulturist Leslie F. Halleck has provide all gardeners with the tools necessary to choose the right structure, how to site it for success, and how to maintain the perfect environment for everything from orchids to succulents to citrus trees and tomatoes.

Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, Flowers, and Food is filled with practical, useful, and real-world, instruction with expert insight that demystifies greenhouse growing.

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Title: Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, Flowers, and Food.

Author: Leslie F. Halleck.

Language: English.

Release Date: September 2026.

Publisher: Quarto Publishing/Cool Springs Press.

Front Cover Image: GAP Photos/Pernilla Berghdahl

Cover Design and Page Layout: Megan Jones Design.

Images: Used with Permission.

Length: 224 pages.

ISBN13: 978-0-7603-9942-2.

MSRP: $28.99 (U.S.), £22.00 (UK), $37.99 (CAN.).

Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade.  A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Under the banner of her production company, HL Productions, LLC, Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has also published "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," and "Days, Times, Seasons, and Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose," which can be purchased here. She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a member of the International Federation of Journalists.