Effects of applications of municipal compost on uptake of copper, zinc and boron by garden vegetables

✍ Scribed by D. Purves; E. Jean Mackenzie

• Book ID: 104613718
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 480 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-079X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00014803

✦ Synopsis

Municipal compost applied to soils in plot experiments with cabbages, lettuces, beans, potatoes and peas in three successive years (25-100 tonnes per hectare) has produced significant enhancement of available soil Cn, Zn and B in each year. Associated significant increases in uptake were as follows: Cu, Zn and B with lettuces and beans, Zn and B with potatoes and B with peas. No significant increases in uptake of any of these elements was obtained in two experiments with cabbages.

Compost treatment was associated with severe phytotoxic effects in the experiment with beans and with yield responses in the experiments with peas and potatoes.