Bed mulches for strawberries …petroleum …polyethylene …combinations
Victor Voth, South Coast Field Station
H. J. Bowen, South Coast Field Station
Frank Takatori, Department of Vegetable Crops
California Agriculture 21(9):12-13. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v021n09p12.
Victor Voth is Research Specialist, Department of Pomology at Davis and stationed at the South Coast Field Station, Santa Ana; H. J. Bowen, Jr., is Senior Laboratory Technician, Department of Pomology at Davis and stationed at the South Coast Field Station, Santa Ana; Frank Takatori is Associate Specialist, Department of Vegetable Crops, Riverside;
Clear polyethylene proved superior in these tests as a mulching material for strawberries in comparisons with colored polyethylene and petroleum mulch.