can be delayed for several days until the water table subsides to a level where it can no longer supply sufficient water to meet the crop needs. Soil moisture measurement devices can be used to determine the depth of the water table that will provide
by hand on each bed top to achieve uniform coverage to a depth of ≈7.5 cm. Weeds in alleys between bed tops and experimental units were managed with mowing and hand weeding. Pepper plants were transplanted on 22 May 2015 (9 weeks after sowing) and 24
periods [P40 d (42.7% N); Sanhe Xiangfengfeiye Fertilize Industry Co., Ltd., Hebei, China, and P100 d (41.6% N); Beijing Futelai Compound Fertilizers Co., Ltd., Beijing, China] were used. Table 1. Collection dates and number of days since burial (in
be species-specific responses to planting depth, soil bulk density, and critical weed-free periods ( Hyder et al., 1955 ; Knezevic et al., 2002 ; Monsen and Stevens, 2004 ). In Virginia, NRCS agents do not recommend tillage because it is purported
, whereas in California, seed was planted at a depth of 0.6 cm. In both locations, seed was germinated with overhead irrigation and thinned to 0.28 m between plants within a plot ≈4 weeks after seed sowing. After germination, experiments were irrigated as