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| Title: | Perennial Solutions
: A Grower's Guide to Perennial Production |
| Author: | Paul Pilon |
| ISBN: | 1883052475 : 9781883052478 |
| Illustrations: | colour photos & tables |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 185x260mm |
| Pages: | 546 |
| Weight: | 1.666 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Ball Publishing) - August 2006 |
| List Price: | 43.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Agriculture & related industries: Horticulture |
Applying up-to-date technical and cultural information to the everyday production of perennial crops, this guide is specifically devoted to producing perennials under greenhouse and nursery conditions. The back-to-basics approach gives growers an understanding of the principles behind production practices, enhancing their ability to consistently provide high-quality perennials to the marketplace. A guide to propagation and growing plants to maturity with chapters on media, water quality, fertilisation, insect and disease management, weed control, plant-growth regulators, forced blooming, herb production, and marketing, and production schedules for over 100 of today's most popular perennial species provide growers with everything they need to succeed.
An Introduction to Perennials; Properties of Growing Mixes; Fertility for Perennials; Integrated Pest Management; Diseases of Perennials; Insects, Mites, and Other Pests of Perennials; Controlling Weeds in Perennials; Controlling Plant Height of Perennial Crops; Perennial Propagation; Forcing Perennials; Overwintering Perennials; Perennial Profiles; Index.
