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Growing Picea Abies Container Seedlings in Peat and Composted Forest-Nursery Waste Mixtures for Forest Regeneration

Cash, R. C. International Plant Propagators' Society, combined proceedings 2006, 56:280-283. 2008.

The suitability of using composted forest-nursery waste as a component in growing medium was studied. Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.] seedlings were grown in containers filled with sphagnum peat (100P), forest-nursery waste compost (100C) and in peat mixtures containing 25 or 50% compost by volume (75P25C and 50P50C, respectively). Morphological and chemical characteristics of the seedlings and the water and nutrient contents of the growing media were studied during 22 weeks of nursery cultivation. The seedlings were outplanted the following spring, and the survival and growth were followed for 3 years. Keywords: Biowaste, conifers, growing medium, outplanting, recycling.


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Author(s): A.-M. Veijalainen, Marja-Liisa Juntunen, Juha Heiskanen, A. Lilja

Section: Soil Management and Growing Media