Use of compost in the fertilization of golf greens

• Autor(es): Monteiro, M.C.H. ; Sebastião, P. ; Águas, P.M.P.
• Data: 2012
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/1408
• Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
• Assunto(s): Golf green; fertilization
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

Portugal has very good climatic and landscape conditions for the golf practice. Nevertheless the maintenance of the greens required high inputs of fertilizers. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the replacement of the conventional fertilizers by an organic compost in the fertilization of golf greens.