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    THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

    Feb 28, 2018 4 minutes
    WORDS: ERINA STARKEY

    In Historia Naturalia, Pliny describes one of the first recorded proto-greenhouses in which carts of vegetables would be wheeled into the sun by day and then stored in warm structures made of transparent stone by night. This gardening technique was developed for the Roman emperor Tiberius, who was particularly partial to cucumbers and insisted on eating them every day of the year.

    These days, greenhouse gardening is an easy and accessible hobby to all backyard enthusiasts. With your own protected horticultural environment, there’ll be no reason why you can’t eat your favourite vegetable every day of the year too.

    Greenhouses come in every conceivable size and price range. What they all have in common is the ability

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