Field trials of weed control research on several vegetable crops are reported in this summary. Unless otherwise indicated these trials were conducted at the Vegetable Crops Research Farm at Corvallis. Soil type at this location is a silty clay loam and all plots were sprinkler irrigated as needed to provide...
The following summaries of results from experimental work with herbicides in horticultural crops cover work completed in 1967. Crops included are bush snap beans, red beets, direct seeded broccoli, cucumber, summer squash, strawberries and nursery rhododendrons. In general, weather conditions were warmer and drier than usual during the 1967 growing...
In herbicide plots on tree fruits in the Willamette Valley and at Hood River there has been a consistent correlation between weed control effectiveness and tree growth in young orchards. This appears to be particularly true of weed control during the spring and summer obtained from spring applications as compared...