Summer Squash Production in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Seal, Dakshina, Shouan Zhang, Monica Ozores-Hampton, Peter Dittmar, Yuncong Li, Waldemar Klassen, Qingren Wang, and Teresa Olczyk. 2016. “Summer Squash Production in Miami-Dade County, Florida: HS-861/TR012, Rev. 6/2016”. EDIS 2016 (5). Gainesville, FL:16. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-tr012-2002.

Abstract

Summer squash is an important vegetable crop in Miami-Dade County. It is grown annually on about 6,000 acres and sold nationwide during the winter in the fresh market. This revised 16-page fact sheet describes the varieties of summer squash, land preparation and transplanting, what fertilizer to use, irrigation and freeze protection, disease management, insect management, weed management, harvest, and crop rotation. Written by D. Seal, S. Zhang, M. Ozores-Hampton, P. Dittmar, Y. Li, W. Klassen, Q. Wang, and T. Olczyk, and published by the Horticultural Sciences Department, June 2016.

HS-861/TR012: Summer Squash Production in Miami-Dade County, Florida (ufl.edu)

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