THE EFFECT OF BIOFERTILIZER AND COMPOST ON THE GROWTH OF ROSEMARY PLANTS

Abstract

The research was conducted in the Hussainiya Holy Shrine nursery to find out the effect of organic and biological mixtures on the growth of rosemary plants, as two factors were used in the experiment (Compost and Biohelth) and each factor had four levels. The second Biohelth (5, 10 and 15) g.l-1 in addition to the control treatment. The experiment was designed according to a completely randomized C.R.D design and for three replicates, each replicate contained three plastic pots and one plant per pot. The L.S.D test was adopted to determine the level of significance among the experimental treatments. The results showed that the interaction between compost + Biohealth treatment was superior to all treatments if the treatment gave 30% compost + Biohealth 10 g.l-1 the highest significant increase for plant height, number of leaves, number of vegetative branches, dry weight of vegetative total, root length and number of roots (64.67cm, 31.33 leaf, 25.88 branch, 6.67 gm, 19.3 cm, 53.00root  respectively).