Resources Tagged: Truck Farming

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  1. Backyard Market Gardening: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow

    1993-01-01 Discover how easy and profitable it is to grow and sell vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs and small livestock from your own Backyard Market Garden.
    Truck farming Market Gardening Vegetable gardening Small Business New Business Enter... United States

  2. Knott's Handbook For Vegetable Growers

    1997-01-01 This classic handbook is considered by generations of commercial growers as the standard reference tool for growing vegetable crops. Filled with information, largely in the form of tables and charts, from hard statistics on vegetable production and consumption to fascinating esoterica, such as...
    Truck farming Vegetable farming

  3. Vegetable Production Guide for Florida

    2000-01-01 The purpose of this book is to provide the best and most up-to-date information available to the primary users of this book - the Florida vegetable industry. SP170 1999 and 2000 editions 2 copies
    Vegetables Florida Truck farming

  4. Vegetables: Characteristics, Production, and Marketing

    1987-01-01 Describes the techniques and fundamental concepts underlying the production and marketing of vegetable crops, particularly those crops that contribute to the commercial vitality of the vegetable industry in the western hemisphere. Covers resources -- natural, biological and economic -- that are...
    Vegetables Truck farming Vegetable Trade

  5. Market Gardening

    1994-01-01 This text introduces readers to vegetable production and guides them through the process of growing a profitable crop in tropical or subtropical climates. It provides details for 59 specific vegetables including the choice of cultivars, their cultivation and management and even how to use them....
    Truck farming Vegetables Tropical Farming

  6. The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener

    1989-01-01 With more than 45,000 sold since 1989,The New Organic Growerhas become a modern classic. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical...
    Organic gardening Vegetable gardening Organic Farming Truck farming

  7. A Handbook on Tropical Vegetable Production Flatland and Hillside

    1988-01-01 A good practical guide for the vegetable production student. A breakthrough in documentation of proven methods in flatland and hillside cultivation of tropical vegetables. Designed especially for today's progressive farmer.
    Tropical Vegetables Truck farming Hill farming

  8. The Tropical Vegetable Garden: Principles for Improvement and Increased Production, With Applications to the Main Vegetables Types

    1992-01-01 Written for diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers, this textbook distills 30 years of vegetable research at one of the world's leading agronomy institutes. The improved practices and techniques of increasing production which it describes, form a vital resource for any...
    Tropical Vegetables Truck farming Vegetable gardening

  9. Growing Native Vegetables in Nigeria

    1974-01-01 The present publication concentrates mainly on the growing of leafy vegetables in Nigeria, many of them being little known to horticulturists and their immense potential of supplementing tropical diets unrealized. Mr. Ephenhuijsen gives a well illustrated, concise account of these native...
    Vegetable gardening Truck farming

  10. African Gardens and Orchards: Growing Vegetables and Fruit

    1990-03-09 A description of the principles and techniques of horticulture in Africa followed by details of growing a wide range of vegetables and fruits including many indigenous types. Aspects of nutrition, food processing and preservation, soil fertility, irrigation and plant protection are covered.
    Fruit Vegetable Truck farming Africa