Authors: W. Lee Daniels, Associate Professor, and Barry Stewart and Dennis Dove, Graduate Research Assistants, Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech
Publication Number 460-131, June 1996
Figure 6. A well-developed grass rooting system which grew in limed and fertilized coal refuse. Research and experience have demonstrated that many coal-refuse materials will respond to lime, fertilizer, and organic amendments and can support vigorous plant growth with little or no soil cover.