Damage and recovery of cranberry vines from exposure to handheld flame cultivators

HortScience

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 870-874

  Ghantous, Katherine M ^a   Sandler, Hilary A ^a   Autio, Wesley R ^a   Jeranyama, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon); Flame weeding; Mowing; Nonchemical weed control; Pruning; Thermal weeding; Torches

Indexed keywords

VACCINIUM MACROCARPON;

EID: 84880810995     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.48.7.870     Document Type: Article

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