Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers
by Donald N. Maynard, George J. Hochmuth
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Author: Donald N. Maynard, George J. HochmuthEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-13
ISBN: 047173828X
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Wiley
Book Reviews of Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers
Book Review: The perfect veggie grower book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very useful book. It is not meant to be read, but to be used as a reference guide. It is just packed with useful growing information. Information can be looked up easily.
I have taught agriculture and worked in agriculture my entire life. This book encapsulates the growing information for crops very well.
Experienced growers would fare well to have this book on your desk of resource material. New growers will be milestones ahead to familiarize yourself with the information in this book.
This book covers every aspect, from starting from seed, soils, greenhouse and field production. Want to know how long it takes a particular crop to mature to harvest? Its here, along with hundreds of other useful tidbits.
Don't expect everything to be written in paragraphs. You have to be able to read and interpret simple charts and graphs.
If you put into practice even one tenth of the information contain in this book you will grow your garden or crops much better. You fare well to buy this book over many of the others with glossy nice to look at pictures. This is a book of facts with an abundance of information.
I recommend this book to anyone growing vegetables for gardening, hydroponic gardeners, or crop production.
Summary of Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers
The leading one-stop reference for commercial vegetable growers for more than 50 yearsRooted in tradition, branching out to the future. For more than half a century, Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers has provided generations of commercial growers with the most timely, accessible, and useful information available on the subject. The Fifth Edition of this highly regarded horticultural mainstay provides readers with the reliable growing and marketing information they've come to expect, while including new and updated material throughout to maintain its relevance in our ever-changing world.
Filled with valuable information, largely in the form of tables and charts--from hard statistics on vegetable production and consumption to essential information for today's international markets, such as vegetable botanical names and vegetable names in nine languages--Knott's Handbook is part Farmer's Almanac, part encyclopedia, and part dictionary. It also provides detailed, practical specifics on planting rates, schedules, and spacing; soils and fertilizers; methods for managing crop pests; greenhouse vegetable and crop production; insect pest identification; harvesting and storage; and vegetable marketing.
Now available in a new flexible cover designed for ease of use on the desk or in the field, this valuable workhorse features new information on:
* World vegetable production
* Best management practices
* Organic crop production
* Food safety
* Pesticide safety
* Postharvest problems
* Minimally processed vegetables
* Plus, hundreds of Web site links related to vegetable information
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