The leading one-stop reference for commercial vegetable growers for more than 50 years
Rooted in tradition, branching out to the future. For more than half a century, Knott's Handbook for Vegetable
Growers has provided generations of commercial growers with the most timely, accessible, and useful information
available on the subject. The Fifth Edition of this highly regarded horticultural mainstay provides readers with
the reliable growing and marketing information they've come to expect, while including new and updated material
throughout to maintain its relevance in our ever-changing world.
Filled with valuable information, largely in the form of tables and charts�from hard statistics on vegetable production
and consumption to essential information for today's international markets, such as vegetable botanical names and
vegetable names in nine languages�Knott's Handbook is part Farmer's Almanac, part encyclopedia, and part dictionary.
It also provides detailed, practical specifics on planting rates, schedules, and spacing; soils and fertilizers;
methods for managing crop pests; greenhouse vegetable and crop production; insect pest identification; harvesting
and storage; and vegetable marketing.
Now available in a new flexible cover designed for ease of use on the desk or in the field, this valuable workhorse
features new information on:
World vegetable production
Best management practices
Organic crop production
Food safety
Pesticide safety
Postharvest problems
Minimally processed vegetables
Plus, hundreds of Web site links related to vegetable information