Abstract
Black polyethylene mulch is preferred for producing early spring tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) because of its warming effect on the soil around the roots. However, using the same mulch for double-cropping cucumbers ( Cucumis sativus L.) with tomatoes is considered by some growers to be undesirable because of the belief that heat accumulation under the mulch in midsummer or early fall is detrimental to cucumber yield. Eight studies were conducted from July to September in 1994, 1995, and 1996 to determine the effects of mulching spring tomatoes with black vs. white polyethylene mulch on the growth and yield of subsequent cucumber crops. Soil temperature recorded after planting cucumbers ≈4:00 pm for 3 weeks was higher under black mulch than under white mulch. Color of the mulch did not affect leaf length, leaf width, and plant dry weight of cucumbers in six of the eight studies. Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced longer leaves in one study and wider leaves in two studies, and plant dry weight was lower in two studies. Mulch color had no significant effect on the premium or total yields of cucumbers in all but one study. Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced lower percentages of culls in two studies.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Soil temperature after planting cucumbers was higher under black polyethylene mulch than under white mulch.
- Taxon
- cucumbers
Cucumis sativuse0 - Treatment
- black mulche0
- Outcome
- Soil temperaturee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- white mulche0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Soil temperature recorded after planting cucumbers ≈4:00 pm for 3 weeks was higher under black mulch than under white mulch”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch color did not affect leaf length, leaf width or plant dry weight of cucumbers in six of the eight studies.
- Taxon
- cucumbersCucumis sativuse1
- Treatment
- black vs. white polyethylene mulche0
- Outcome
- leaf length, leaf width, and plant dry weighte1
- Direction
- did not affecte1
- Value
- six of the eight studiese1
- Comparator
- white polyethylene mulche0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Eight studies were conducted from July to September in 1994, 1995, and 1996 to determine the effects of mulching spring tomatoes with black vs. white polyethylene mulch on the growth and yield of subsequent cucumber crops”
e1“Color of the mulch did not affect leaf length, leaf width, and plant dry weight of cucumbers in six of the eight studies”
Claim · model-written summary
Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced longer leaves than on white mulch in one study.
- Taxon
- CucumbersCucumis sativuse1
- Treatment
- black mulche1
- Outcome
- longer leavese1
- Direction
- longere1
- Value
- one studye1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced longer leaves in one study and wider leaves in two studies, and plant dry weight was lower in two studies”
Claim · model-written summary
Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced wider leaves than on white mulch in two studies.
- Taxon
- CucumbersCucumis sativuse1
- Treatment
- black mulche1
- Outcome
- wider leavese1
- Direction
- widere1
- Value
- two studiese1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced longer leaves in one study and wider leaves in two studies, and plant dry weight was lower in two studies”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant dry weight of cucumbers grown on black mulch was lower than on white mulch in two studies.
- Taxon
- CucumbersCucumis sativuse1
- Treatment
- black mulche1
- Outcome
- plant dry weighte1
- Direction
- lowere1
- Value
- two studiese1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced longer leaves in one study and wider leaves in two studies, and plant dry weight was lower in two studies”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch color had no significant effect on premium or total yields of cucumbers in all but one study.
- Taxon
- cucumbersCucumis sativuse1
- Treatment
- Mulch colore1
- Outcome
- premium or total yieldse1
- Direction
- no significant effecte1
- Value
- all but one studye1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Mulch color had no significant effect on the premium or total yields of cucumbers in all but one study”
Claim · model-written summary
Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced lower percentages of culls than on white mulch in two studies.
- Taxon
- CucumbersCucumis sativuse1
- Treatment
- black mulche1
- Outcome
- percentages of cullse1
- Direction
- lowere1
- Value
- two studiese1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Cucumbers grown on black mulch produced lower percentages of culls in two studies”
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