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Row Covers for Growth Enhancement1

G.J. Hochmuth and R.C. Hochmuth2

The Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida was updated in January 2011. The most current version of this chapter (September 2007) may be found at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/CV/CV10600.pdf.

Keywords: production systems, row covers, frost protection

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Figure 1. 

Clear polythylene and white polypropylene wire hoop supported low tunnels for early vegetables.


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Figure 2. 

Wide row covers for frost protection.


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Footnotes

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This document is HS716, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Date first printed: June 1995, Date revised: September 2007. Reviewed December 2010. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

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G.J. Hochmuth, Professor and Associate Dean for Research - Gainesville; and R.C. Hochmuth, agent IV, NFREC-Live Oak, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611. The Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida is edited by S.M. Olson, professor, NFREC-Quincy, and E.H. Simonne, associate professor, Horticultural Sciences Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida.

The use of trade names in this publication is solely for the purpose of providing specific information. It is not a guarantee or warranty of the products named, and does not signify that they are approved to the exclusion of others of suitable composition. Use pesticides safely. Read and follow directions on the manufacturer's label.

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