Polyethylene over strawberries: Strawberry bed covers markedly influence soil temperature and earliness of fruit in Orange and San Diego county tests

Bringhurst, R; Voth, V

Polyethylene over strawberries: Strawberry bed covers markedly influence soil temperature and earliness of fruit in Orange and San Diego county tests

Authors

R. S. Bringhurst
Victor Voth

Authors Affiliations

R. S. Bringhurst is Associate Professor of Pomology, University of California, Davis; Victor Voth is Associate Specialist in Pomology, University of California, Davis, located at the South Coast Field Station, Santa Ana.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 13(5):5-5. DOI:10.3733/ca.v013n05p5. May 1959.

PDF of full article, Cite this article

Abstract

Thin sheets of polyethylene are used extensively to cover strawberry beds by southern California growers who report that covered beds have less fruit rot, cleaner fruit, and in many instances earlier production when compared with uncovered beds. Varying degrees of weed control are also realized.

Also in this issue:

Cotton price and production: Long term gains for California cotton growers depend on competitive pricing and growth of domestic, export markets

Commercial cut flower industry: Expansion of merchandising outlets for floral products needed to balance increased output capacity of growers

Sugar-beet nematode activity: Yields increased by early planting in sugar-beet nematode infested fields in date-of-planting tests in Monterey County

Soft scales infesting walnut: Chemical control required when natural mortality factors are disturbed by treatments directed against other insect pests

Plantclimates of California: Zones of similar plant responses and their possible interpretation by effective day-night temperatures

Chemicals on weeds in onions: Selective herbicides tested for economical control of common broad-leaved weeds and for effects on commercial onion crop

Developmental anatomy of the fleshy storage organ of Daucus carota

Structure of end walls in differentiating vessels

Comparative histogenesis of vegetative and floral apices in Amygdalus communis, with special reference to the carpel