Impact of Weed Management Practices on Soil Moisture, Growth and Yield of 'Star Ruby' Grapefruit Trees under Toshka Conditions,Egypt

摘要

AFIELD experiment was carried out in two consecutive seasons on 5-year-old grapefruit trees grown at a spacing of 4m by 5m at Toshka Research Station, South of Egypt to study the impact of environment friendly weed management practices on grapefruit growth and yield. Five treatments were tested to evaluate their effectiveness on suppressing weeds, maintenance soil moisture, promoting tree vegetative growth and yield of 'Star Ruby' grapefruit (Citnis pamdisi): Tl: hand weeding (used as the control); T