TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

• Plant Nutrition
• Soils For Horticulture
• Estimating Nutrient Requirements
• Fertiliser Materials
• Calibrating Application Equipment
• Monitoring Fertility
• Generalised Guide to Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms
  • 1 - Deficiencies where older leaves are affected first (N, P, K, Mg, Mo)
  • 2 - Deficiencies where younger leaves are affected first (Ca, S, B, Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn)

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SUBTROPICALS

• Avocados
• Babacos
• Casimiroas (White Sapote)
• Cherimoyas (Custard Apple)
• Citrus
• Feijoas
• Figs
• Guavas
• Kiwifruit
• Lychees
• Macadamias
• Olives
• Passionfruit
• Persimmons
• Tamarillos

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GRAPEVINES

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PIP AND STONE FRUIT

• Pipfruit
• Stone Fruit

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BERRYFRUIT

• Blackcurrants
• Blueberries
• Boysenberries, Youngberries and Blackberries
• Gooseberries
• Raspberries
• Strawberries

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PROTECTING CROPPING

• Greenhouse Vegetables
• Nursery Stock, Bedding Plants and Pot Plants in Peat and Bark

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VEGETABLES

• Conditions associated with Nutritional Disorders in Vegetable Species
• Nutrient Requirements and Specific Deficiency Symptoms of Vegetable Species

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APPENDIX

• Diagnostic Standards for Plant Nutrient Concentrations in Vegetables
• Factors for converting MAF quicktest results to other units

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