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Response of Table Beets (Beta vulgaris L.) to Banded Fertilizer Phosphorus and Potassium at Different Levels of Soil Phosphorus and Potassium in a Heavily Fertilized Honeoye Silt Loam Soil¹

ABSTRACT

Response of table beets to fertilizer P and K banded at planting time in 1960 was determined on a Honeoye silt loam soil which had received various levels of complete fertilizer from 1945 to 1951, and different levels of broadcast fertilizer P and K from 1954 to 1959. Soil P from previously applied fertilizer accumulated to a greater extent and had a longer residual effect than soil K as measured by soil tests; however, responses of beets to different levels of soil K were greater than they were to different levels of soil P. At high levels of soil P, there was little response to differences in soil P or banded fertilizer P. At medium levels of soil K, there were considerable increases in percentage of K in the leaves, plant size, and yield with increases in soil K and/or banded fertilizer K. Responses to different levels of soil P and K, and banded fertilizer P and K were cumulative and generally independent of each other. Generally, the soil P and K were relatively as important as the banded fertilizer P and K in producing high yields of beets.

¹ Contribution from the New York State Agr. Exp. Sta., Cornell University, Geneva, N. Y. Approved by the Director for publication as Journal Paper no. 1416. The results are in part from a thesis submitted by G. E. MacDonald in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Graduate School of Cornell University for a M.S. degree.

² Associate Professor, Professor and Experimentalist, Department of Vegetable Crops, respectively.

Received for publication October 28, 1964. Accepted for publication March 22, 1965.