PLANT RAISING FOR MODERN TRANSPLANTING SYSTEMS

In the UK, 250 million plants raised in ‘modules’ of various types are used to establish vegetable crops on approximately 9000 ha representing 20% of the transplanted acreage.
The effects of module shape, type of compost and nutrition on transplant establishment are discussed together with methods for controlling and modifying transplant and crop growth.

I International Symposium on Mechanization of Vegetable Production

D. Gray

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1986.187.1