Search Results
vermicompost effects. Data taken during strawberry season (strawberry yield, biomass, plant nutrients, and soil extractable N) were analyzed separately following the split-plot design for each sample date. Two-way multivariate analysis of variance was used to
decomposition process, composting takes organic waste and turns the matter into a “topsoil-like” material called compost, which has environmental and economic value. With increased enrollment, college campuses experience increases in food waste generated. These
designed to be planted directly into the ground. Once they have been used for greenhouse production, they can be discarded into a compost or landfill facility where they will decompose. These containers include rice hull containers (Summit Plastic Co
aeration and high decomposition. Maturity of composts considered complete when the temperature inside the heap decreased to the surrounding temperature. Analysis of the physicochemical properties of these composts revealed that nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P
along with their interactions. Normality and equal variance assumptions have been checked using normal probability plots and side-by-side box plots, respectively. When the interaction effects were found to be statistically significant, the interactions
Increasingly, composting is used as a waste management method for a variety of organic materials ( Walker et al., 2006 ). Composting is the biological decomposition of organic and “waste” materials, such as plant tissues, food scraps, paper, animal
evapotranspiration (i.e., reducing soil moisture thus increasing water storage between rain events) and nitrate scavenging ( Brennan et al., 2013 ; Jackson et al., 1993 ; Wyland et al., 1996 ). After incorporation into soil, decomposing cover crop can increase soil
decomposition of the available C, a process that requires N ( Bunt, 1988 ; Nelson, 2011 ). Wood components such as composted barks, hammer-milled wood materials, and sawdust can have C:N ratios of 300:1 or greater ( Maher et al., 2008 ; Nelson, 2011 ; Prasad
the mulch for all plots using a 0.250-m 2 quadrant placed randomly on the plots. Weed dry weight was measured as indicated above. Statistical analyses. Data across all years were subjected to analysis of variance. When year-by-treatment interaction
production costs in other fruit commodities. Ethephon is the a.i. (21.7%) in Ethrel® (Bayer Crop Science, Research Triangle Park, NC), a systemic PGR that, in solutions of pH 4 or higher, decomposes to ethylene, phosphate, and chloride ions ( Royal Society of