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Title: APPLICATION OF SOIL SOLARIZATION TO FALL PRODUCTION OF CUCURBITS AND PEPPER

Author
item Chellemi, Daniel
item HOCHMUTH, ROBERT - UNIV. OF FLORIDA
item WINSBERG, TED - GREEN CAY FARMS
item GUETLER, WALTER - GUETLER FARMS
item SHULER, KENNETH - UNIV. OF FLORIDA
item DATNOFF, LAWRENCE - UNIV. OF FLORIDA
item Kaplan, David
item MCSORLEY, ROBERT - UNIV. OF FLORIDA
item DUNN, ROBERT - UNIV. OF FLORIDA
item OLSON, STEVE - UNIV. OF FLORIDA

Submitted to: Proceedings of Florida State Horticultural Society
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/2/1997
Publication Date: N/A
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Technical Abstract: Soil solarization, applied alone or in combination with 1,3-dichloropropene or municipal solid waste compost, was evaluated as an alternative to preplant fumigation with methyl bromide. In Palm Beach County, marketable yield of pepper was 15.3 and 16.4 tons/acre from solarized and methyl bromide treated areas, respectively, while suppression of nutsedge and the density of root-knot nematodes were similar under both treatments. Following a subsequent second crop of cucumber, reductions in marketable yield and increases in the severity of root galling and density of root-knot nematodes were observed in untreated or solarized areas, but not in an area treated with soil solarization plus 1,3-dichloropropene. In Suwannee County, suppression of yellow and purple nutsedge was similar in plots receiving soil solarization or methyl bromide while reductions in root galling and density of root-knot nematodes were greatest in plots treated with methyl bromide. Marketable yield of cucumber was greatest in methyl bromide-treated areas.