Florida nursery best management practices: Past, present, and future

HortTechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-88

  Yeager, Tom ^a   Million, Jeff ^a   Larsen, Claudia ^a   Stamps, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Container; Fertilizer; Irrigation water; Ornamentals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950344201     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.20.1.82     Document Type: Article

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