RESEARCHES ON WEED CONTROL ON STRAWBERRIES

Abstract

Strawberries are, usually planted using black special plastic film for weed protection yet the interval between planted rows is still susceptible to weed infestation which can cause important damages to the crop. However, some growers prefer the multiannual crop with straw mulch applied before fruit ripe. These two situations need chemical control of weeds in order to decrease the manual labor need. The experiment has tried three soil applied active ingredients (S – metolaclor, pendimetalin and oxyfluorfen) and threepostemergent ones (quizalofop, linuron, oxyfluorfen and S – metolaclor). The soil applied substances gave very good results yet, among the postemergence ones, linuroncan not be applied on strawberries because the plant will not produce flowers and fruits anymore, eventhough the leaves are not affected.