Open AccessResearch of the elasticity of transplant - growing substrates after watering
Author(s) -
Noémi Kappel,
Gábor Zsivánovits,
Karen F. Tóth,
K. Slezák
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of horticultural science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2676-931X
pISSN - 1585-0404
DOI - 10.31421/ijhs/9/1/379
Subject(s) - peat , penetrometer , flexibility (engineering) , water table , elasticity (physics) , environmental science , agricultural engineering , groundwater , soil science , engineering , materials science , mathematics , soil water , geotechnical engineering , biology , ecology , composite material , statistics
It gets more and more popular to grow transplants in different trays for the field vegetable growing. The best transplant-growing substrates in the world are made of peat. The peat is applied to provide an optimal supply of plants with water and air. To improve the water regulation and the structure of the mixtures there are often mineral matters used in different amounts. By measuring the physical properties of soil mixtures based on peat, the flexibility can be measured by Stable Micro System type table penetrometer. Our measuring confirmed the increase of bulk and flexibility of different kinds of peat by watering.