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Book Synopsis Greenhouse Vegetable Production Guide 1990-1991 for Commercial Growers by : Canada
Download or read book Greenhouse Vegetable Production Guide 1990-1991 for Commercial Growers written by Canada. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 1993
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Book Synopsis Greenhouse Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers by :
Download or read book Greenhouse Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers written by . This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes general production information; specific information for tomatoes, long English cucumbers, sweet peppers, and butterhead lettuce; and details of pest management by type of pest; and the use of pesticides.
Author : Gary W. Hickman
Release : 1998
Genre : Cucumbers
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Book Synopsis Commercial Greenhouse Vegetable Handbook by : Gary W. Hickman
Download or read book Commercial Greenhouse Vegetable Handbook written by Gary W. Hickman. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald N. Maynard
Release : 2013-04-11
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers by : Donald N. Maynard
Download or read book Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers written by Donald N. Maynard. This book was released on 2013-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading one-stop reference for commercial vegetable growers for more than 50 years Rooted in tradition, branching out to the future. For more than half a century, Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers has provided generations of commercial growers with the most timely, accessible, and useful information available on the subject. The Fifth Edition of this highly regarded horticultural mainstay provides readers with the reliable growing and marketing information they've come to expect, while including new and updated material throughout to maintain its relevance in our ever-changing world. Filled with valuable information, largely in the form of tables and charts--from hard statistics on vegetable production and consumption to essential information for today's international markets, such as vegetable botanical names and vegetable names in nine languages--Knott's Handbook is part Farmer's Almanac, part encyclopedia, and part dictionary. It also provides detailed, practical specifics on planting rates, schedules, and spacing; soils and fertilizers; methods for managing crop pests; greenhouse vegetable and crop production; insect pest identification; harvesting and storage; and vegetable marketing. Now available in a new flexible cover designed for ease of use on the desk or in the field, this valuable workhorse features new information on: * World vegetable production * Best management practices * Organic crop production * Food safety * Pesticide safety * Postharvest problems * Minimally processed vegetables * Plus, hundreds of Web site links related to vegetable information
Author : Howard M. Resh
Release : 2022-04-21
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis Hydroponic Food Production by : Howard M. Resh
Download or read book Hydroponic Food Production written by Howard M. Resh. This book was released on 2022-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth edition of Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower serves as a comprehensive guide to soilless culture (hydroponics) for hobby and commercial growers. Extensively updated from the seventh edition published in 2013, this bestseller is a "methods" book to show the reader how to set up a hydroponic operation with the options of using any of many hydroponic cultures presently used in the industry to grow vegetable crops. Written by Dr Howard M. Resh, a recognized authority worldwide on hydroponics, the book presents detailed information on hydroponic growing systems and features more than 600 photographs (200 in full color), drawings, and tables. New to this edition: Presents greenhouse environmental control systems and examples of sustainable greenhouse technology, and demonstrates uses of automation and robotics in harvesting, grading, and packing. Introduces indoor vertical farming, and vertical growing systems, as well as the expansion of tropical hydroponics and rooftop greenhouses. Provides information on automation in large-scale raft culture and nutrient film technique (NFT) operations in the growing of lettuce, leafy greens, and herbs. A new chapter 12 discusses control of environmental factors in greenhouses. It covers information on systems to regulate temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide enrichment, lighting, and fertigation with examples of sustainable greenhouse technology. This chapter demonstrates automation in the regulation of the greenhouse environment to crop production methods with emphasis on robotics in harvesting to transporting, grading, and packing equipment. The use of retractable roof structures in tropical, humid climates is an alternative for growing greenhouse crops. A new chapter 14 describes vertical indoor farming. It presents background information on early vertical greenhouses and sack culture systems to present vertical systems used by greenhouses and existing vertical greenhouses and future concepts. Vertical indoor farming reviews systems of vertical tiers of shelving growing lettuce, leafy greens, and herbs under LED lighting in large warehouses. The chapter exemplifies automation in these vertical farms with each specific system and it contains information on vertical growing in containers and/or modular units. Chapter 15 contains new information on tropical hydroponics describing hydroponics in Peru. Expansions of rooftop greenhouses with new locations in New York, Chicago, and Montreal display updated facilities and crops.
