The Effect of Living Mulches on Yield and Quality of Tomato Fruits

Adamczewska-Sowińska, K.; Kolota, E.

doi:10.2478/v10032-008-0018-z

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“…All treatments that protect the soil from degradation and use plant protection methods other than chemicals are of great importance in organic farming (Adamczewska-Sowińska and Kołota 2008). Among others, options for such treatment include organic mulches, which limit the growth of weeds, protect the soil from drying out and reduce the leaching of nutrients, resulting in a positive effect on the cultivated plant yield and improving its quality (Schonbeck and Evalylo 1998, Thakur et al 2000, Gajc-Wolska et al 2005, Ghosh et al 2006, Rahman et al 2006, Dahiya et al 2007, Saeed and Ahmad 2009).…”

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The effect of soil mulching with straw on the yield and selected components of nutritive value in broccoli and tomatoes

Kosterna

2014

Folia Horticulturae

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By maintaining proper moisture and reducing daily temperature fluctuations, mulching improves soil conditions for plant growth and development, resulting in a positive effect on the vegetable yield. The chemical composition of vegetables is genetically determined as well as being modified by factors affecting the plant during growth, and particularly climatic conditions and agro-technology practices.

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The effect of soil mulching with straw on the yield and selected components of nutritive value in broccoli and tomatoes

Kosterna

2014

Folia Horticulturae

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“…In contrast, rye seeded 10 or 20 d after broccoli transplanting did not control weeds or reduce broccoli yield. found that hairy vetch and lana vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) reduced cabbage yield when seeded 10 d after transplanting, but there was no yield penalty associated with seeding at 20 or 30 d. A delay in living mulch planting has also been reported to increase crop yield in other broccoli systems, as well as cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L.), leek (Allium porrum L.), pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.), and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.; see Adamczewska-Sowińska et al 2009;Adamczewska-Sowińska and Kołota 2008;Canali et al 2015;Ciaccia et al 2017;Kloen and Altieri 1990;Kołota and Adamczewska-Sowińska 2004;Montemurro et al 2017;Müller-Schärrer et al 1992;Vanek et al 2005). Similarly, delayed living mulch planting may reduce yield losses in field crops, including corn and soybean (Brooker et al 2020;Uchino et al 2009;Vrabel et al 1980;Wivutvongvana 1973).…”

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Integrated management of living mulches for weed control: A review

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Living mulches are cover crops grown simultaneously with and in close proximity to cash crops. Advantages of living mulches over killed cover crops may include increased weed suppression, erosion and leaching control, soil health, and resource-use efficiency. Advantages of living mulches over synthetic mulches may include enhanced agroecosystem biodiversity and suitability for a wider range of cropping systems. A major disadvantage of this practice is the potential for competition between living mulches and cash crops. The intensity and outcome of mulch-crop competition depend on agroecosystem management as well as climate and other factors. In this review, we consider the management of living mulches for weed control in field and vegetable cropping systems of temperate environments. More than 50 years of research have demonstrated that mechanical or chemical suppression of a living mulch can limit mulch-crop competition without killing the mulch and thereby losing its benefits. Such tactics can also contribute to weed suppression. Mechanical and chemical regulation should be combined with cultural practices that give the main crop a competitive advantage over the living mulch, which in turn outcompetes the weeds. Promising approaches include crop and mulch cultivar selection, changes to planting time, density, and planting pattern, and changes to fertilization or irrigation regimes. A systems approach to living mulch management, including an increased emphasis on the interactions between management methods, may increase the benefits and lower the risks associated with this practice.

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“…This type of cultivation can significantly affect on mitigation of soil sickness through acting as a protective and anti -erosion agent, on reduction in pests population through increasing the number of their natural enemies, as well as reduction in weeds infestation. As it has been proved by long -term study, appropriately maintained cultivation of vegetables with living mulches, in spite of high competitiveness between them, can provide advantageous effects involving satisfactory yield of vegetables and protection of the environment vegetables are cultivated in (Admaczewska-Sowińska 2004, 2008, Adamczewska-Sowińska & Kołota 2008, 2009). …”

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Effect of Living Mulches on Selected Soil Structure Indicators in Eggplant Cultivation

Wojciechowski

Adamczewska-Sowińska

Krygier

2012

Journal of Fruit and Ornamental Plant Research

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SummaryConducted research involved evaluation of selected soil properties in eggplant cultivation with the use of living mulches from white clover and perennial ryegrass. The mulching species were sown three weeks before eggplant planting, in the term of planting and three weeks after planting this vegetable. In half of August there was assessed stability of soil aggregates on the basis of the following indicators of: cloddiness (B), misting (S), structure (W) of the soil and mean weighed diameter of aggregates -the dry method (MWDa), as well as water stability ( MWD) and waterproof (Wod) index of soil aggregates and mean weighed diameter of aggregates -the wet method (MWDg). Cover plants did significantly decrease soil cloddiness indicator, while the earliest term of their sowing contributed to lowering of that parameter values by nearly 1/3 in relation to the data obtained for mechanically treated plots. Indicator of misting of the soil and soil structure index was higher for the soil of inter -rows covered with living mulches. It was noticed that longer term of covering interrows with white clover and perennial ryegrass improved soil structure. Living mulches improved mean weighed diameter of aggregates, determined according to the wet method, as well as indicator of aggregates waterproof and water stability index. After sowing white clover or perennial ryegrass three weeks before eggplant planting, mean weighed diameter of aggregates, measured with the use of the wet method, was higher by 29.0% and by 18.3% than the one characterizing the object with the last term of sowing and it was higher by 31.4% and 17.1% than the value determined for mechanically treated inter -rows. ΔMWD indicator for the soil covered with white clover and with perennial ryegrass was, average, by 15.5% and 34.7% higher than the data featuring mechanical treatment. For Wod index those differences amounted 18.8% and 9.7% respectively.

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The Effect of Living Mulches on Yield and Quality of Tomato Fruits

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

The effect of soil mulching with straw on the yield and selected components of nutritive value in broccoli and tomatoes

The effect of soil mulching with straw on the yield and selected components of nutritive value in broccoli and tomatoes

Integrated management of living mulches for weed control: A review

Effect of Living Mulches on Selected Soil Structure Indicators in Eggplant Cultivation

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