Drip irrigation lines placed 15 cm (deep) and 5 cm (shallow) below soil surface were compared to furrow irrigation with zucchini squash as a summer crop and cabbage as a winter crop. Both crops were grown on the same drip lines in each treatment. Urea phosphate was injected in drip lines during growing season while the furrow-irrigated plots received preplant application of phosphorus. In squash, deep lines produced higher yields than did shallow. Deep-drip yields were comparable to those with furrow but used half the water and half the fertilizer. In cabbage, deep-drip yielded slightly higher than shallow-drip and furrow. In these studies, deep-drip was superior in applying water and fertilizer.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/214134 |
Date | 04 1900 |
Creators | Rubeiz, I. G., Oebker, N. F., Stroehlein, J. L. |
Contributors | Oebker, Norman F., Kingdon, Lorraine B. |
Publisher | College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) |
Source Sets | University of Arizona |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text, Article |
Relation | Series P-66, 370066 |
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