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Guide To Urban Gardening In Winooski Valley, Vermont, Grace Claire O'Neil
Guide To Urban Gardening In Winooski Valley, Vermont, Grace Claire O'Neil
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Urban gardens have become a growing interest in the Burlington, Vermont area. As interest grows, soil management, amendment, and health are integral to garden productivity. A baseline of soil health for the Burlington Area Community Gardens was created. Explored hypotheses include how nutrient concentrations changed over time (2011 to 2018) in till and no-till scenarios.
Ten sites in the Winooski Valley area were soil sampled in the Fall of 2018, along with eight sites in the Chittenden County vicinity in the Spring of 2019 for comparison. Using the Modified Morgan’s Universal Extraction Solution, soil nutrients such as phosphorus (P), potassium …