Site Testing of Tioga Strawberry in Kanchanaburi Province

Abstract

Site Testing of Tioga Strawberry was conducted in Tong Pa Poom District, Kanchanaburi Province on December 1986. Three different types of mulching material were tested; impalata leaves, rice straw and transparent plastic sheet. Fifty percent shade was also tested to reduce light intensity effects. The results showed that soil moisture, survival percentage, plant size and fruit yield were not different in all mulching material treatments. However, ahile fifty percent shading could highly significantly increase plant size, but flowering was found to decrease from 73.33 to 40.00 percent. Yielding about 14-30 gram of berry per plant was very low when compared with 150-250 gram per plant of those averaged for strawberry production in the northern province.