Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Mar 1984
Soil Amendments at Planting
Soil Amendments at Planting
Page Range: 27 – 30
The growth response of 10 difficult to establish landscape shrubs and trees was evaluated in a series of 4 backfill experiments utilizing hole sizes, organic amendments, mulch, and/or drip irrigation. Growth responses varied among species, but no consistent, positive responses were derived from traditional backfill amendments.
Copyright: Copyright, All Rights Reserved 1984
Contributor Notes
Paper presented at the Ornamentals/Landscape and Turf Working Group Workshop ‘Planting Practices—A New Look at Old Ideas,’ during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science, McAllen, Texas, Oct. 19, 1983.
2Horticultural specialist.
Received: 04 Nov 1983