Soil quality response to cover crops and amendments in a vineyard in Nova Scotia, Canada

• DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2015.02.041
• Publication Date: 2015-03-28T00:49:51Z
• Authors: Aime J. Messiga; Mehdi Sharifi; Andrew Hammermeister; Kyle Gallant; Keith Fuller; Martin Tango
• Keywords: 2. Zero hunger; 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences; 15. Life on land; 6. Clean water

a b s t r a c t The effects of cover crop mixtures combined with organic and industrial wastes on selected soil properties were assessed in a vineyard in Eastern Canada. The experimental treatments were randomly arranged in a nested design with three replicates. Four alleyway cover crop mixtures (control with no cover crop (CONT), oats + pea + hairy vetch (OPV), oats underseeded with red clover (ORCl), and timothy + alsike + red clover (TM)) were applied to main plots. Five fertility treatments (fertilizer without N (NDEF), full syn- thetic fertilizer (FERT), wood ash (WA), municipal solid food waste (MSFW), and mussel sediment (MS))