Effects on yield and quality of plant organic wastes in strawberry growing

SUMMARYEFFECTS ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF PLANT ORGANIC WASTES INSTRAWBERRY GROWINGThis research was conducted for the aim of effects on yield and quality ofplant organic wastes in strawberry growing at the experimental field of theDepartment of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Adnan Menderes Universitybetween 2005 and 2006 planned as complementary studies. Trials were establishedin completely randomized block design with four replicates.In the study, `Sweet Charlie? strawberry cultivar was used as a plant material.Cruciferae vegetable crops pods (CK), broad bean pods (BK), maize plant?s choppedabove ground parts (MS), jerusalem artichoke plant?s chopped above ground parts(YE), and wheat straw(S) were used as plant organic wastes.The plant organic wastes were mixed into the soil on 10 November 2004. Inthe first year, seedlings were planted on 04 January 2005. In the second year, theseedlings were planted on 10 October 2005. According to the decompozition of themin the soil, the plant organic wastes were differently affected the yield and quality instrawberry.As the shortest biodegredation process was in the BK treatment whichdemonstrated higher performance than the other treatments, this treatment showedthe most positive effect by means of yield and quality values. Although YE treatmentobtained relatively better results following the BK treatment than control, thistreatment could not catch as high performance as of the BK treatment. All wastesexcept control were lately decompozed due to the lack of nitrogen content within thetissues and fell behind of control. Among the wastes, the S treatment was notdecomposed during the experiment due to the slowest decompozition speed. In thecourse of this two-year experiment, the S treatment was not add any positive effect.In the study, in the light of the yield and quality observations, such that yield, totalfruit number, yield per plant, time passed for the first flowering, time passed for the50% flowering, time passed for the first fruit set, time passed for 50% fruit set, plantgrowth speed, fruit width, fruit length, TSS, pH, TA, fruit surface color, and tasteanalysis, BK treatment gave the most satisfactory results. It was drawn a conclusionthat these results were the most efficaciously related to the plant organic wastesdecompozed in the soil and the time passed for them to be beneficial.