Improving Transplants Production of Tomato & Lettuce Using Soil Solarization | ||||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
| Article 20, Volume 25, Issue 2, July 2011, Page 53-58 PDF (590.75 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2011.195649 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Saleh Al-Obeid | ||||
| Dep. Horticulture. Faculty of Agriculture Deir-Ezzor. Al-Furat University. Syria | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Field experiments on tomato and lettuce seed-bed solarization were conducted at Deir-Ezzor in Syria. The well prepared and pre irrigated seed-bed plots were covered with 40 micron thick clear polyethylene mulches for a duration of 6 weeks prior to tomato and lettuce planting for the two seasons (2009, 2010). Soil solarization raised the maximum of soil temperature at 0 , 5 and 10 cm depths to 58, 50 and 46 °C, with increase of 9.9 and 7.5 over the nonsolarized treatment respectively . Solarization resulted in approximately 98 % and 80 % reduction for annual and perennial weeds. Seed-bed solarization increased healthy tomato and lettuce transplants production as compared with the untreated plots. It also produced taller transplants with more leaves and higher fresh weight. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Tomato; lettuce; solarization; transplants; weed | ||||
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