Fruit and vegetables are in a live state after harvest [...]

A review of organic growers' concerns about weeds is presented and several issues that may ease those concerns are highlighted. The underlying principles of organic weed management (OWM) are briefly discussed and results from organic grower surveys regarding weed management practices in organic horticultural cropping are presented. The most common weeds encountered by organic growers, often tho...

The heterogeneity of horticultural substrates makes basic physical characteristics, such as total porosity and particle density, difficult to estimate. Due the material source, inclusion occluded pores, hydrophobicity, density values reported from using liquid pyknometry, vary widely. Gas pycnometry was used determine coir, peat, perlite, pine bark, wood substrates. Further precision examined b...