Capillary Irrigation: the Effect of Soil Volume on Tomato Production
- 1 January 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Horticultural Science
- Vol. 45 (3) , 207-214
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221589.1970.11514347
Abstract
With conventional methods of overhead watering soil volume has a large effect on plant growth and yield, but in experiments described, in which water and nutrients were automatically supplied by capillary methods, soil volume in the range 0.26-0.56 ft3 (7.4–15.8 dm3) per plant had little effect on two tomato crops. This lack of response is attributed to the maintenance by the capillary irrigation system of soil-moisture tensions below 8 in. water gauge (2.0 kN/m2).Keywords
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