Effect of Vermicompost on the Growth and Yield of Lettuce Plant (Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa)
Sevinç Adiloğlu
Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Faculty, Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa- Tekirdağ, Turkey
Funda Eryılmaz Açıkgöz
Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Department of Plant and Animal Production, Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa- Tekirdağ, Turkey
Yusuf Solmaz
Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Faculty, Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa- Tekirdağ, Turkey
Ece Çaktü
Riverm Agricultural, Chemical, Food and Mining Industry, Süleymanpaşa- Tekirdağ, Turkey
Aydın Adiloğlu *
Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Faculty, Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa- Tekirdağ, Turkey
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This research was done to find out the effect of increasing vermicompost application on yield of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa) plant. For this purpose Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa cv. Bellafiesta lettuce kind and Riverm Company vermicompost were used in this research. Four vermicompost doses (0 kg/ha, 4000 kg/ha, 8000 kg/ha and 12000 kg/ha) were applied to lettuce plant. According to the results, important increases of fresh weight, plant size, number of leaf, length and width of leaf for each plant and dry matter yield of plants were determined with increasing vermicompost applications. But the effects of Vermicopmost applications on some macro element (N, P, K, Ca and Mg) contents of plant were not found significant statistically.
Keywords: Biological, property, lettuce, macro, nutrient, element, vermicompost