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Farming in the city: how the urban environment affects vegetable crop production, soil heavy metal contamination and nutrient dynamics, produce nutritive quality, and insect dynamics in urban gardens
… had 40 0.43 m3 raised bed pots filled with compost-soil-sand mix (50, 40, and 10% respectively). Fourteen cultivars of seven common garden vegetable species were grown in the raised bed pots in 2013 to 2015 seasons. Onion and kale were planted in early April (spring), tomato, pepper, and …
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Disentangling Perceived and Measured Soil Health in New York City Urban Farms
Soil contamination is often addressed by constructing new compost-based soils for urban agriculture. We examined these constructed soils to assess soil health across a diversity of farming sites across New York City, consulting with farmers to characterize their soils as “healthy” or “unhealthy” …