THE BEST USE OF FARM WASTES AS MEDIA FOR SOME SEEDLINGS GROWTH

Abstract

This study was carried out at El-Zohrya garden, Horticulture Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Giza governorate, Egypt, in a plastic house during the period from 2010-2012. To study the effect of using nine treatments of different agriculture wastes with three replicates on vegetable nurseries as replacement of (peat-moss) in the growing medium and to find out the perfect media of cucumber, pepper, eggplant and cestrum diurnum seedlings. The treatments were : compost of bean, rice straw and corn stover + chemical fertilizer (M1), bean + rice straw and pruning waste + chemical fertilizer (M2), rice straw+ pruning and banana wastes + chemical fertilizer (M3), rice straw+ corn stover and banana wastes + chemical fertilizer (M4), compost after leacheat 1 + compost tea (M5), compost after leacheat 2 + compost tea (M6), compost after leacheat 3 + compost tea (M7), compost after leacheat 4 + compost tea (M8) and peatmoss (control) (M9).