Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers (ePub)

The leading one-stop reference for commercial vegetable growers for
more than 50 years

Rooted 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