CREEPING SQUASH CULTIVATED IN A PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT (FORCED TUNNEL)

This work was carried out at "Setor de Plasticultura" do Departamento de Engenharia Rural da Facultade de Ciencias Agrarias e Veterinarias – UNESP – Campus de Jaboticabal SP Brasil, during the agricultural year 1990/91.

The plastic use according to Araujo (1989) permit to get expressive alteration in the activity of producing food, altering the growth environment and vegetalbe reproduction.

The treatments were: 1.-Conventional Treatment (control); 2.-Mulching use, covering the soil with a black plastic film; 3.-Cultivation with a use of a forced tunnel and 4.-Cultivation under a mulching and a forced tunnel.
It was used the squash cultivar "PIRA MOITA". In relation to the production it was observed values of 107%, 80% and 50% superior to the treatments 4,2 and 3, respectively, when compared with the control.

III International Symposium on Protected Cultivation in Mild Winter Climates

J.A.C. de ARAUJO, P.D. CASTELLANE, H. CARMINATO

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1994.357.6