Comparing Weed Suppression in No-Till and Conventionally Tilled Pumpkin Systems that Utilize Stale Seedbed Techniques and Transplants

Abstract

The primary objectives of this research were a) to learn whether a strategy that combines the use of transplants and the creation of a stale seedbed in a reduced-tillage system offers improved weed control when compared to direct seeding, and b) to learn whether a stale seedbed/transplanting strategy is more weed suppressive when used in a no-till/cover crop system than when used in a conventional tillage system (i.e., to learn the contribution of the cover crop in suppressing weeds).