Volume 9
Issue 1
Horticulture
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume9/issue1/abs-11.html
THE EFFECT OF GREEN FERTILIZERS IN THE FORM OF CATCH CROPS ON SOIL HUMIDITY CHANGES IN A THREE-YEAR-LONG VEGETABLE CROP ROTATION
Romualda Jab這雟ka-Ceglarek1, Robert Rosa1, Anna Zaniewicz-Bajkowska2, Jolanta Franczuk2
1 Department of Vegetable Crops,
Podlasie University in Siedlce, Poland
2 Department of Vegetable Crops,
Podlasie University in Siedlce, Poland
ABSTRACT
A field experiment was conducted in central-eastern Poland in the years 1999-2003. It analyzed the effect of catch crop green fertilizers on soil humidity in a three-year-long crop vegetable rotation (white cabbage, onion, red beet). Oats, field pea and spring vetch cultivated in pure sowing and as mixtures were used as green fertilizers. The effect of green manures was compared with ploughed in farmland manure in the dose of 25 t·ha-1 and the control without any organic fertilization. White cabbage was grown in the first year after organic fertilization, onion – in the second and red beet – in the third.
Key words: organic fertilization, green manures, soil humidity, white cabbage, onion, red beet.
Romualda Jab這雟ka-Ceglarek
Department of Vegetable Crops,
Podlasie University in Siedlce, Poland
14 B. Prusa Street, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
Phone: (+48 25) 643 12 76
email: rjablon@ap.siedlce.pl
Robert Rosa
Department of Vegetable Crops,
Podlasie University in Siedlce, Poland
14 B. Prusa Street, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
Phone: (+48 25) 643 12 76
email: robro@ap.siedlce.pl
Anna Zaniewicz-Bajkowska
Department of Vegetable Crops,
Podlasie University in Siedlce, Poland
14 B. Prusa Street, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
tel. (+48 25) 643 12 76
Jolanta Franczuk
Department of Vegetable Crops,
Podlasie University in Siedlce, Poland
14 B. Prusa Street, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
tel. (+48 25) 643 12 76
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