Soil Management: For Orchards and Vineyards
- ISBN-10
- 0730630188
- ISBN-13
- 9780730630180
- Series
- Soil Management
- Category
- Fruit
- Pages
- 95
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Authors
- Gary O'Connor, Jan Strawhorn, Ken Orr
Description
This book provides a rundown on the range of soil management systems open to orchardists and viticulturists: traditional cultivation, herbicide strip, grass sward interrow and mulched vine or tree lines. The different systems are compared on the basis of fruit yields, fruit quality, environmental effects and cost of implementation.
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- 2020-01-22
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