Evaluation of pumice as a perlite substitute for container soil physical amendment

Autor:	David J. Williams, L. Art Spomer, Dianne A. Noland
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Irrigation Excess water Pumice Soil water Perlite Amendment Environmental engineering Soil Science Environmental science Mineralogy Aeration Agronomy and Crop Science
Zdroj:	Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 23:1533-1547
ISSN:	1532-2416 0010-3624
DOI:	10.1080/00103629209368685
Popis:	Shallow‐drained horticultural soils utilized in containers, sporting areas, and landscape sites tend to retain excess water and be poorly aerated as a consequence of capillary retention following irrigation or precipitation. This problem is usually corrected by soil physical amendment with coarse‐textured particulates which add pores sufficiently large to drain and provide adequate aeration. A variety of materials are used for soil physical amendment. One of the most common and successful amendments is perlite. This study examined the feasibility of using pumice, a very similar mineral, as a substitute for perlite in soil amendment. The physiochemical properties of pumice important to its use as a container soil amendment were found similar to those of perlite.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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