Horticultural Studies (HortiS) 2000, Vol 17, Num, 1     (Pages: 39-52)

TORF AS SOILLESS CULTURE MEDIUM

Mehmet Ali DEMİRAL 1

Viewed : 1192 - Torf is most preferred organic material that is prepared various soilless culture media. It can be used alone or mixed with other materials and all of important physical and chemical properties of growing medium can be arranged easily. As known, the success of artificially growing media is closely related with the knowledge about the properties of growing medium. Thus, knowledge about the physical and chemical properties of torf as soilless culture medium has great importance. Keywords :