For more than half a century knotts 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 theyve come to expect while including new and updated material throughout to maintain its relevance in our ever changing world. This fifth edition of knotts handbook for vegetable growers is a compact compendium of factual data for commercial vegetable growers with most of the data presented in the form of tables and charts it is a ready reference work filled with information such as transplant production planting rates and spacing methods for controlling diseases insect pest identification and even a multilanguage vegetable dictionary this new edition adds new material on such topics as composting fresh cut . We hope that handbook for vegetable growers will continue to be the timely and useful reference for those with interest in vegetable crops envisioned by dr j e knott when it was first published in 1956 james e knott 1897 1977 was a massachusetts native he earned a bs degree at rhode island state college and an ms and phd at. For more than half a century knotts 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 theyve come to expect while including new and updated material throughout to maintain its relevance in our ever changing world filled with valuable information