Table 1.
Pre-planting selected physicochemical properties of experimental soils.
| Locations | Physical Properties |
Chemical properties |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand |
Clay |
Silt |
Textural Class | pH | SOM |
TN |
Ava.P |
Ava.S |
Ex. K |
CEC |
|
| % | % | Mg kg−1 | (Cmol kg−1) | ||||||||
| Gerba | 6 | 76 | 18 | Clay | 6.8 | 1.55 | 0.087 | 6.95 | 5.62 | 0.88 | 40.0 |
| Deneba | 8 | 74 | 18 | Clay | 7.3 | 1.79 | 0.088 | 6.36 | 4.98 | 0.82 | 39.0 |
pH = soil reaction, SOM = soil organic matter, ava. P = available phosphorus, ava. S = available sulphur, Exch. K = exchangeable potassium, CEC = Cation exchange Capacity. TN = Total nitrogen.