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Abstract The effect of some organic waste mixtures viz., sewage sludge + olive pomace (SS-OP) and sewage sludge +tomato residues (SSTR) on pI-I, organic carbon, total nitrogen and P availability of sandy and calcareous soils, were investigated. Two surface soil samples differing in their contents of CaC03, collected from the Farm of Faculty of Environmental Agricultural Sciences, El-Arish, North Sinai were used for incubation and lysimeter experiments. Thus the experiment were performed to investigated the availability of P in the tested soils and NPK uptake by grown barley plant, as affected by organic waste mixture treatments, inoculation with phosphate dissolving bacteria (PDB), and application of ordinary superphosphate (aSP). Due to incubating the sandy and calcareous soils with organic manures (SS-OP, SS- TR), the soil pH values were generally decreased. The treatment (SS-TR +PDB+OSP) was more effective in reducing soil pH than others. Also, the soil content of available P was considerable increased with the aforementioned treatment. This effect was partly dependent on the type of soil and the incubation course. At the beginning of incubation course, the total nitrogen content of the two soils was increased by applying the organic residues (SS-OP) and (SS-TR) up to 39.5% relative to the control. Then, the total nitrogen content in the manured soils was decreasing during the process of incubation. After 50 days from sowing, the shoot dry weight of barley plant tented to increase over the control by all treatments. The increases were statistically significant with the two treatments (OSP+SS-TR5) and (OSP+SSTR5+ PDB). The nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium concentrations and uptake by plant were found to be generally increased by all treatments up to 90 days after sowing, comparing with the control. |