Abstract

The study was done inunwarmedplastic house of Department of Horticulture andGarden Engineering, Agriculture college, University Baghdad the alternative locationUniversity of Al−Anbar to study the effect of planting dates and agricultural media andtheir interactions on some yield characteristics of strawberry (cultivar festival) for of2016−2017 seasons. The study included 12 treatments represented the interactions ofthree planting dates (16/10/2016, 3/11/2016 and 21/11/2016) named D1,D2 and D3respectively, and four mixtures 100% sandy loam soil (control medium), sandy loamsoil with peatmoss and composted sheep manure, sandy loam soil with peatmoss andcomposted calf manure, sandy loam soil with peatmoss and composted poultry manurein the ratios of (2:1:1) respectively These named M0, M1, M2 and M3 respectively.The experimental design was conducted according to Randomized completely blockdesign (R.C.B.D) with three Replicates, the means were compared using the test isless significant difference (L.S.D) and the level of 5% probability. The results showedthe superiority of early planting in the first planting date since it recorded the highestaverages in percentage of fruit dry matter، T.S.S ratio، acidity ratio (TA) ، and amountof vitamin C reached (7.53%, 7.06%, 0.75% and 52.42 mg.100 ml−1) respectively،while the second planting date gave the highest average for TA:T.S.S ratio (9.34). inconclusion, planting with soil mixture contain organic supplements led to significantlyincrement in most yield parameters comparing with the control (M0).

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