Vegetable Cultivar Recommendations

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Commercial Vegetable Production
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Roadside Market
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Dollar Return/Acre for Various Crops
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Operator Labor/Acre for Various Crops
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Vegetables That Are Raised Using Plasticulture.
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Steps in Using Plastic Mulch to Produce Vegetables
Laying plastic mulch and drip tape with a bed
shaper.
Waterwheel setter for transplanting or seeding
through plastic mulch.
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High Pressure Drop Nozzle Sprayer
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Cost of Vegetable Equipment

• Plastic mulch layer - 2250.00
• Water wheel planter - 1675.00
• High pressure sprayer - 3000.00

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Transplanting/seeding Vegetables Through Plastic
Mulch
Transplanting bean seed using a waterwheel setter
with two punch wheels.
Setting transplants using a waterwheel setter
with a single punch wheel.
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Drip Irrigation Components
A 5 hp gas motor can provide enough water to
irrigate up to 5 acres of vegetables.
A sand filter is used to clean the water that is
distributed to the crop by drip tape.
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Basic Trickle System Control Station-Backflow
preventor/check valve

• Prevents reverse flow of water
• Prevents backflow from damaging pump
• Prevents suction lines from being drained (prime)
• Protects municipal water from contamination

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Disk Filter for Trickle Irrigation

• Pressure gauge

Discharge
Flush valve
Intake
Disk filters are designed to clean dirty water.
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Disk Filter Filter Rings
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Commercial Vegetable Production Drip Irrigation
Fittings
Drip line
Drip line fitting
Layflat
Layflat lines and connectors for drip irrigation
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Drip Irrigation Small System Costs

• Centrifugal pump (2 in., 5.5 hp) 575
• Disc filter (2 in.) 225
• Fertilizer injector 160
• 2 tensiometers service kit 125
• Layflat (300 ft, 2 in.) 100
• Suction hose (20 ft) strainer 53
• Fittings, valves, gauges, etc. 70
• (TOTAL (reusable)
  1308

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Bell Peppers
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Double Row-Trickle Irrigated Bell Peppers
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Bell Peppers, Fresh Market, Trickle Irrigated
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Bell Pepper Evaluation (Lexington, KY) 2001
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Bell Pepper Evaluation(Quicksand, KY) 2001
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Bell Pepper Cultivars

• X3R Aristotle 3 lobed dark green pepper with
  most fruit longer than wide with a 70 day
  maturing time.
• X3R Red Knight 3 lobed medium green pepper that
  is early maturing (65 -70 days).
• X3R Ironsides A good pepper with deep end
  cavities.

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Specialty Peppers
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Bean Production
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Beans
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Cabbage Patch
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Cabbage
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Fresh Market Tomato Production
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Number of Tomato Plants/acre at Several Between
and In-row Spacing
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Tomatoes, Fresh Market, Trickle Irrigated
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Tomatoes
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Tomatoes

• Mountain Fresh Determinate large, crack
  resistant fruit, Midseason,excellent flavor, good
  disease resistance, local or shipping market.
• Plum Dandy Pear/Plum shaped high yielding
  variety from the Mountain Series with good
  Early Blight tolerance.
• Carolina Gold Determinate, large, smooth, crack
  resistant fruit for shipping or local sales.
  Early to mid season with resistance to gray wall
  also excellent for fried green tomatoes.
• Mountain Belle Determinate large meaty cherry
  type, 1 1 ¼ in diameter. Can be used for local
  sales or shipping.

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Late Season Spray Schedule for Tomatoes(Before
Harvest)
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Late Season Spray Schedule for Tomatoes(During
Harvest)
Note Do not use more than 4 applications of
Quadris
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Sweet Corn Production in Kentucky
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Recommended Sweet Corn Cultivars

• Su Varieties
• Yellow
• Golden Queen 93
• Merit 88
• Bicolor
• Bi-Queen 93
• White
• Silver Queen 93

• Se Varieties
• Yellow
• Incredible 83
• Bicolor
• Calico Belle 80
• White
• Silverado 79

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Recommended Sweet Corn Cultivars

• sh2 Varieties
• Yellow
• Bandit 80
• Flagship II 84
• Bicolor
• Candy Corner 76
• White
• Ice Queen 77

• Synergistic Varieties
• Yellow
• Sugar Ace 85
• Bicolor
• Providence 82
• White
• Sweet Ice 74

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Sweet Corn Fertilizer Guidelines
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Sweet Corn Weed Control
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Sweet Corn Weed Control
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Sweet Corn Population at Different Spacings
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Sweet Corn Maturity

• Fresh market sweet corn reaches maturity 21-25
  days after silking.

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Succession Plantings Sweet Corn

• Making the next sweet corn planting after the
  previous planting has 4 leaves or after 150 heat
  units (base 50F) has elapsed, separates the
  planting harvests by 1 week.

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Tight shuck coverage
Excellent tip fill
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2002 Cantaloupe Cultivar Trial Quicksand Kentucky
1. Days from transplant to first harvest. 2.
Means within a column followed by the same letter
separated are not significantly different. 3.
Least Significant Difference, P0.05.
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Plastic Mulch

• Increases earliness
• Increases yields
• Increases fruit number
• Retains moisture
• Reduces weeds
• Keeps fruit cleaner
• Reduces fruit decay