Vegetable Forcing - Containing Information on Greenhouse Construction, Management and Frame Culture
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Vegetable Forcing - Containing Information on Greenhouse Construction, Management and Frame Culture - Ralph L. Watts
VEGETABLE FORCING
VEGETABLE forcing is the production of vegetables in greenhouses, hotbeds, coldframes, or other structures. In frame culture in the spring or fall, glass may be used during only a part of the period of growth.
The business of vegetable forcing is highly specialized. The purpose of this discussion is to present briefly the fundamental principles and practices.
Competition is severe and is augmented by the improved methods of packing and transportation which supply fresh vegetables from warmer regions throughout the winter season. Under the conditions few growers consider it profitable to expand their glass beyond the area, needed for plant growing.
Forcing boxes are the simplest means of advancing the growth of crops. In effect they are miniature coldframes which are placed over certain crops, for example hills of melons or cucumbers, immediately after sowing seeds or setting plants. They are especially useful in regions where the transition period from cool to warm weather is long, and where the summers are too short to produce satisfactory crops of warm-season vegetables. They are used to a limited extent also to advance the harvest in warmer regions. A very few growers use forcing boxes extensively. They usually are made as rectangular, bottomless, light wooden boxes to be covered with a single pane of 10x12-inch glass which slides in grooves to permit ventilation. The use of forcing boxes is described on page 454.
Plant protectors.—In a sense, the various more or less transparent plant protectors, in the form of cones or domes of paper or similar material, also may be considered as small forcing structures. Their use is similar to that of forcing boxes, although they are much less expensive and not so laborious to apply. They are not generally used in the East, but a few growers who have become skilled in their management find them profitable with extra early crops, especially cucurbits or tomatoes. As the days become warmer, ventilation is provided by slitting the