Compost as a Growth Substrate for Woody Ornamental Nursery Production

Peat is an expensive, environmentally nonrenewable component of media used to grow woody ornamental trees. Leaf compost from the city of Bowling Green is an inexpensive renewable resource that was substituted for peat in soil-less container media. Seeds of three commercially important tree species,...

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Main Author: Crocker, Jaime
Format: Others
Published: TopSCHOLAR® 2004
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/545
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1548&context=theses