Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education

Grants And Education To Advance Innovations In Sustainable Agriculture

Project Overview

FNE94-070
Project Type: Farmer
Funds awarded in 1994: $5,000.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/1995
Region: Northeast
State: Massachusetts
Project Leader:
Miranda Smith

Organic “Bag Culture” of Greenhouse Peppers

Commodities

  • Vegetables: peppers

Practices

  • Pest Management: general pest management

Proposal summary:

I want to develop a reliable and organically certifiable "bag" culture system for greenhouse crops as a means of avoiding soil-borne pathogens in greenhouse soils. I propose to set up trials of three fertilization solutions for containerized peppers, using four replications of each. Two of these solutions will meet organic certification standards while the last, my "control", will not.

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