Clean chip residual: A substrate component for growing annuals

HortTechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-432

  Boyer, Cheryl R ^a   Fain, Glenn B ^a,b   Gilliam, Charles H ^a,c   Gallagher, Thomas V ^a   Torbert, H Allen ^b   Sibley, Jeff L ^a,c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Auburn University ^*

Author keywords

Ageratum; Alternative media; Forest by products; Forestry; Impatiens; Peat moss; Pine bark; Salvia; Wood fiber

Indexed keywords

AGERATUM HOUSTONIANUM; ANTHOZOA; BRYOPHYTA; IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS WALLERIANA; SALVIA; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 45749105456     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.18.3.423     Document Type: Article

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