Garden management and soil fertility in Flemish domestic gardens

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-35

  Dewaelheyns, Valerie ^a   Elsen, Annemie ^b   Vandendriessche, Hilde ^b   Gulinck, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Soil Service of Belgium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Compost; Domestic gardens; Fertilizer use; Grass clippings; Soil fertility

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSTING; LAND USE; NUTRIENTS; SOIL CONDITIONERS; SOILS;

CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; DOMESTIC GARDENS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZER USE; GRASS CLIPPINGS; PHOSPHORUS CONTENTS; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SOIL FERTILITY;

FERTILIZERS;

AGRONOMY; CLIPPING; COMPOST; DOMESTICATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GARDEN; GRASS; INTERNET; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL FERTILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

EID: 84878655776     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.03.010     Document Type: Article

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