The watermelon is cultivated mainly by small producers, in sandy soils under conventional tillage, with occurrence of high erosion taxes, since the crop doesn’t form canopy capable to cover the soil entirely. Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.) was evaluated under different cultivation systems on an Ultisol in the Central Depression of RS, Brazil, in an experiment in the 2008/2009 growing season. On 48 m2 plots in a randomized block design with four repetitions, the following cultivation systems were tested: conventional tillage […]