Comparison of growth, nutrition, and productivity of tomato, cucumber and sweet pepper on organic media of varying composition, supplemented with liquid organic fertilizers

Current and future work at the Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre in Harrow, Ontario

Replicated experiments will be conducted during 2006-2009 to compare growth, nutrition, and productivity of tomato, cucumber and sweet pepper on organic media of varying composition, supplemented with liquid organic fertilizers.

The composition of the growing media will be adjusted on the basis of research experience gained during 2003/2004 and new commercial liquid organic fertilizers will be evaluated.

Emphasis will be placed upon various methods of formulating the growing medium, and the periodical side-dressing of plants with different rates of growing medium throughout the cropping season.

Leading commercial organic media will be introduced, as they become available, as benchmarks in performance trials of the experimentally developed media. Data will be collected on plant growth and nutrition, fruit yield (by grade) and fruit quality.

Dr. A. P. (Tom) Papadopoulos
Senior Research Scientist/Principal Charge de Recherche
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada/Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Telephone/Téléphone: 519-738-2251 Ext. 423
Facsimile/Télécopieur: 519-738-2929
Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre/Centre de recherches sur les cultures abritees at industrielles
Harrow, Ontario
N0R 1G0
Email: papadopoulost@agr.gc.ca
Website: http://res.agr.ca/

David Ehret
Plant Physiologist / Physiologiste des plantes
Innovation and Renewal Team / Équipe des Innovation et Renouvellement
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre / Centre de recherches agroalimentaires du Pacifique
PO Box 1000
Agassiz, BC V0M 1A0
Canada

Telephone / Téléphone: 604-796-2221, ext. 217
Facsimile / Télécopieur: 604-796-0359
Email:ehretd@agr.gc.ca