Compost and Wildflowers for the Management of Urban Derelict Soils

Table 2

Values of organic carbon content, bulk density, and water stability index (WSI) in no compost treated (NCT) and compost-treated (CT) soil at different sampling dates.

	DEC	FEB	MAY	JUL
Organic C%
NCT	1.36 aA^†	0.81 bB	1.06 abA	1.18 abA
CT	2.07 aB	1.80 aA	2.80 bB	2.37 cB
WSI
NCT	2.9 aA	2.4 aA	3.4 aA	6.3 bA
CT	3.0 aA	3.0 aA	8.6 bB	15.1 cB
Bulk density
NCT	1.41 aA	1.50 aA	1.44 aA	1.42 aA
CT	1.46 aA	1.48 aA	1.30 bB	1.30 bB

^†For each parameter values on the same row followed by the same lowercase letter are not significantly different; values on the same column followed by the same capital letter are not significantly different.