Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers, 5th Ed.

Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers is a huge (620 pages) classic handbook considered by generations of commercial growers as the standard reference tool for growing vegetable crops. Filled with information, largely in the form of tables and charts, from hard statistics on vegetable production and consumption to fascinating esoterica, such as vegetable botanical names and vegetable names in nine languages. Knott's Handbook is part Farmer's Almanac, part encyclopedia, and part dictionary. But with its detailed, practical specifics on planting rates, schedules, and spacing; soils and fertilizers; methods for controlling diseases; greenhouse vegetable and crop production; insect pest identification; harvest and storage; and vegetable marketing, it is an indispensable helpmate to the farmer in the field and in the marketplace.Thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the latest technological advances in vegetable growing. Contains new information on water management with drip irrigation; seed priming and seed germination tests; plant tissue testing; petiole sap testing; windbreaks; and weed management. A revised discussion of allowable pesticide and herbicide use as well as the newest in worker protection standards makes the Fourth Edition even more relevant to today's commercial grower. This is the ultimate day-to-day field reference, as indispensable to a farmer's work as good weather. Soft cover, comb binding, 620 pages, filled with charts and tables, 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". To Order By Phone Call Toll Free: 866-596-9982