Lettuce production according to different sources of organic matter and soil cover

• Published in: Agricultural sciences Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 99 - 105
• Main Authors: Moreira, Maria Aparecida, Santos, Carlos Allan Pereira dos, Lucas, Ariovaldo Antonio Tadeu, Bianchini, Flávio Gabriel, Souza, Igor Machado de, Viégas, Pedro Roberto Almeida
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.02.2014
• Subjects: Veronica
• ISSN: 2156-8553; 2156-8561
• DOI: 10.4236/as.2014.52013

Lettuce is one of the leading vegetables produced by farmers in the Itabaiana region, and thus it is important to study means of sustainable management for the crop. The objective of this article was to evaluate the behavior of lettuce with different sources of organic matter and soil cover. Therefore, it was chosen to cultivate Veronica. The experiment was carried out in the experimental field plot of Project Small Farmer-Great Entrepreneur in the municipality of Itabaiana-SE, in 2010. The design was a randomized block design with four replications, with treatments consisting of five sources of organic matter (organic compost, chicken manure, cattle manure, sheep manure, and castor bean) and a control, all with and without mulch, totaling 12 treatments. When soil mulch was used, the best source of organic matter for growing lettuce was chicken manure, and in the impossibility of using this cover, researchers recommend the use of organic compost, as a source of organic matter, as it showed the best result in the absence of coverage.