Cover crops and organic mulch to improve tomato yields and soil fertility

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 345-351

  Wang, Qingren ^a   Klassen, Waldemar ^a   Li, Yuncong ^a   Codallo, Merlyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; CROPS; HEMP; SOILS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

C:N RATIOS; COVER CROPS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; HIGH RATES; MUCUNA PRURIENS; ORGANIC FARMINGS; PLASTIC MULCHES; SOIL FERTILITIES; SOIL ORGANIC C; SOIL QUALITIES; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SUNN HEMPS; TOMATO (LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM MILL.); TOMATO FRUITS; TOMATO YIELDS; VELVETBEAN; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

FRUITS;

CANNABIS; CROTALARIA; CROTALARIA JUNCEA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUCUNA; MUCUNA PRURIENS VAR. UTILIS; PIPERACEAE; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM X DRUMMONDII; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 63049102727     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2008.0103     Document Type: Article

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