Bedding Improves Yellow-Poplar Growth on Fragipan Soils

John K. Francis

Bedding Improves Yellow-Poplar Growth on Fragipan Soils

Informally Refereed

Authors:

John K. Francis

Year:

1979

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

Res. Note SO-244. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.

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Abstract

Yellow-poplar can be grown on soils that have a shallow fragipan--but unless such sites are bedded, growth is likely to be extremely poor. In a Tennessee study, bedding increased height of planted yellow-poplar over 5 years, but fertilizer did not. Because of the cost of bedding and the availability of nonfragipan sites, it would ordinarily be better not to plant yellow-poplar on soils with shallow fragipans.

Keywords

tiriodendron tulipifera L., fertilization

Citation

Francis, John K. 1979. Bedding Improves Yellow-Poplar Growth on Fragipan Soils. Res. Note SO-244. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.