The effect of different compost: soil rates on some parameters of the soil-plant system

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Article Title:	The effect of different compost: soil rates on some parameters of the soil-plant system
Authors:	Anita Szabo*, Emese Berta Szabo, Marianna Sipos, Imre Vago
Affiliation:	University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science
Abstract:	Composting is an alternative way for practicing site-specific and environmental friendly plant nutrient supply. Our aim was to study the effect of different composts on plant and soil system. Pot experiment with acidic sandy soil blended with three composts in five (0%, 5%, 10%, 25% and 50%) proportion was set up. Our experimental plant was perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). After the harvest of ryegrass we measured the fresh and dry weight of harvested plants, the P-, K-, Mg-contents, and the pH of soils. The three composts had different effect on dry weight production and on nutrient-supply of soil. We established that one of the compost had significantly larger effect on the dry weight of ryegrass compared to the others. In this study we proved that favorable compost/soil proportion is different in the case of different composts.
Keywords:	sustainable plant production, compost mixing ratio
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*Correspondence:	Anita Szabó, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, no. 138. Böszörményi St., 4032 Debrecen, Hungary, Email: szaboanita@agr.unideb.hu