(0.6 m wide and 0.2 m tall) were then prepared. A drip irrigation system was installed to irrigate the seedlings. A single row of plants was grown in the middle of plastic mulch with a single lateral for each row and one drip emitter per plant to
.i./acre) POST, a plastic mulch only treatment, and then a bareground nontreated control. After a period of 40 days after planting, the POST treatments of halosulfuron (0.036 a.i./acre and 0.018 a.i./acre) were applied when nutsedge emergence had reached peak
design. Cultural management followed regional commercial practices: in-row white plastic mulch as orchard floor management, drip irrigation (each plant received 3.4 L·h –1 , 3 h per week), and fertigation with liquid calcium nitrate (applied once a week
adapted to early-season culture. However, beginning in the mid-1970s, improved cultural techniques using different plastic mulches and rowcovers provided technologies for extending the growing season and increasing melon yields in northern latitudes
sudden vine decline in watermelons ( Adkins et al., 2008 ). Insecticide application combined with the use of light-reflective mulches may be a useful strategy to decrease aphid populations and control PRSV-W infectivity in commercial cucurbit fields
experienced more white mold when grown on black plastic mulch beds than when grown in soilless bags on soil covered in black landscape fabric 44 and 62 days after first harvest ( P = 0.0054, Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel test). In nonfumigated high tunnels, after
application of soybean meal at 111 Kg·ha −1 N. Ten centimeter high, 120-cm wide raised bed plasticulture with 1.8-m row spacing was used. Reflective plastic mulch was used to minimize tomato spotted wilt incidence. Plant training methods included standard
. Changing the reflective mulches to reflect more red and far-red light affects growth of sweet pepper ( El-Desouky et al., 2005 ) and changes the specific accumulation of volatile compounds ( Loughrin and Kasperbauer, 2001 , 2003 ). Increased production of
quantifying susceptibility to cercospora leaf spot and variation in horticultural characteristics. Ten plants were placed in individual transparent plastic bags in centrally controlled misting chambers (New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva
and covered with a white-on-black polyethylene plastic mulch film. Two drip tapes with emitters spaced 30 cm apart and a flow rate per emitter of 0.91 L·h –1 (Netafim, USA, Fresco, CA) were installed at 2-cm depth in each bed. Preplant fertilizers