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Heating Greenhouses

Jonathan Watson, , , , , and

Release Date: 11/24/2019

Reviewed At: 11/4/2025

DOI: 10.32473/edis-ae015-2019

Agriculture

Abstract

A greenhouse has one purpose: to provide and maintain the environment that will result in optimum crop production for maximum profit. This includes an environment for work efficiency as well as for crop growth. This publication is limited to describing equipment and methods used to control or maintain a desirable temperature in a greenhouse during those periods when supplemental heat is required.

About this Publication

This document is AE11, one of a series of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date January 1983. Revised January 1992 and November 2019. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

How to Cite

Watson, J. A., Gómez, C., Buffington, D. E., Bucklin, R. A., Henley, R. W., & McConnell, D. B. (2019). Heating Greenhouses. EDIS, 2019, 5. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-ae015-2019

Authors

Jonathan Watson
Jonathan Watson
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University of Florida

associate professor, agricultural economics and postharvest, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

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Celina Gómez
Celina Gómez

associate professor, controlled environment agriculture, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Agriculture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, former assistant professor, controlled environment horticulture, Department of Environmental Horticulture

D. E. Buffington
D. E. Buffington

professor emeritus and former head, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

Ray Bucklin
Ray Bucklin

professor emeritus (deceased), Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Richard W. Henley
Richard W. Henley

professor emeritus, Department of Environmental Horticulture, UF/IFAS Mid Florida Research and Education Center

Dennis McConnell
Dennis McConnell

professor emeritus, UF/IFAS Department of Environmental Horticulture

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