Ecological Cultivation of Greenhouse Tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) in Limited Beds Fertilized with Locally Produced Mulches: Effects on Growth and Yield

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-189

  Gäredal, Lena ^a   Lundegårdh, Bengt ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZATION; GREENHOUSE; GROWTH REGULATION; MANURE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT PRODUCT; PLANT VARIETY; PLANT YIELD;

MULCH;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0040118511     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.1998.9755230     Document Type: Article

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