Greenhouses and protected cropping structures.

Abstract This chapter focuses on greenhouses and protected cropping structures. Topics covered are glasshouses and plastic greenhouses, closed and semi-closed greenhouse structures, passive solar greenhouses, sustainable greenhouse design, cladding materials, screen houses, net houses, shade houses, rain covers and other structures, screen and shade nets, low tunnels and high tunnels, hot beds and cold frames greenhouses, floating mulches, row covers, cloche covers, direct covers and frost cloth, greenhouse site planning, windbreaks, outdoor hydroponic systems, and controlled-environment agriculture.