The Change of Some Food Elements in Soil Depending On Shadowing and Fertilization

Abstract

Soil is one of the most important factors affecting the plant development on the basis. The methodmostly applied for the purpose of accelerating the plant development and ensuring the increase inproducts is to increase the nutrients in the soil, namely fertilization. Fertilization ensures lots of foodelements in the soil to get mixed in the soil and change the soil composition. Another factor affectingthe plant growth speed and productivity is shadowing. Shadow conditions change the light receivingamounts of the plant and directly affect the plant photosynthesis speed. In addition; shadowing notonly affects the dissolution and in-soil mixture speed of the fertilizers applied to the soil, but it alsodirectly affects the humidity content of the soil. In this study, it has been aimed to determine thefood element changes in the soil on the lavender individuals grown under different shadowconditions and fertilized with different fertilizers. The lavender used in the study has been selecteddue to the fact that it adapts to dry areas, it is abstinent in terms of soil and it is an important andincome-generating medical aromatic plant. As a result of the study, it has been determined thatshadowing statistically affects salt, carbon, phosphor, nitrogen and potassium and fertilizationstatistically affects phosphor, nitrogen, potassium, carbon and salt at least at 95% confidence level.