Vegetable crops / Homer C. Thompson [and] William C. Kelly.

By: Contributor(s): Series: McGraw-Hill publications in the agricultural sciencesPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1957.Edition: 5th edDescription: viii, 611 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 635 20 THO
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CONTENTS

Vegetables and vegetable growing
Classification of vegetables
Soils and soil preparation
Manures and soil improving crops
Commercial fertilizers and lime
Seeds and seed growing
Plant growing and plant-growing structures
Planting vegetable crops in the open
Cultivation, mulches and chemical methods of weed control
Irrigation
Rotation, succession and intercropping
Control of diseases and insects
Marketing
Storage of vegetables
Perennial crops
Potherbs or greens
Salad crops
Cole crops
Root crops
Bulb crops
The potato
The sweet potato
Beans and peas
Solanaceous fruits
The cucurbts, or vine crops
Sweet corn, Okra, Martynia
Chayote, yam, Dasheen, Manioc

Includes index

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