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research article

Bed mulches for strawberries …petroleum …polyethylene …combinations

authors

Victor Voth, South Coast Field Station
H. J. Bowen, South Coast Field Station
Frank Takatori, Department of Vegetable Crops

publication information

California Agriculture 21(9):12-13. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v021n09p12. September 1967.

author affiliations

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;

abstract

Clear polyethylene proved superior in these tests as a mulching material for strawberries in comparisons with colored polyethylene and petroleum mulch.