On suiting of the Crimean Northern Sivash meadow - chestnut soils for fruit and oily cultures

Abstract

The meadow - chestnut soils have been recognized suitable for fruit and oily cultures as the examination result of the agricultural arable and pasturable land in Jankoy introduction quarantine nursery of the Nikitsky botanical gardens, that is located in the village of Medvedevka (The Jankoy region, the Crimea republic). In view of a salt horizon is close to be deposited, a soda salification, a higher alkalescence on the part of the area, the soils are differently in a limited degree suitable for the laying of gardens, a nursery and oil cultures. For a successful plantation on those soils a droppings irrigation against a background of drainage should be organized and watering in small norms should be made not to have a durable soil drying out and a repeated salification, it is necessary to bring in organic fertilizers (40 - 50 tons per hectare) and a mineral phosphorous (150 -300 kgs per hectare) in dependence of a soil type, a phosphorous gypsum or copperas for a deep cutting before a plant laying (1 - 2 tons per hectare) with a further soil bathing against a background of drainage. Saline soils with sulphates, chlorides and soda should be had a soil improvement with a higher norms of phosphorous gypsum or copperas (1 - 10 tons per hectare).