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Topdressing Turf with Composted Manure Improves Soil Quality and Protects Water Quality

^a Dep. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO 80523-1173
^b Dep. of Soil & Crop Sciences, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO 80523-1170

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Soil moisture retention curve of cores (0–3 cm) collected beneath Kentucky bluegrass, subjected to four compost treatments. Each point is the mean of four cores per plot, replicated three times. Bars indicate Least Significant Difference (P 0.05) among treatments.

View larger version (31K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. The effect of compost rate on runoff (top) and erosion (bottom) rates as a function of time, from Kentucky bluegrass. There was no significant difference (p 0.05) among treatments.