Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.) is an important vegetable crop worldwide. In this study, response of Cabbage crop (cv. Korsina) to five different (animal, poultry, plant, plant + animal, poultry + animal) organic manure treatments as compared to the chemical fertilization (control) was evaluated under field conditions in two consecutive seasons of 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. The aim of the experiments was to determine the best organic fertilizer (manure) option (whether plant, animal, poultry) for better growth and head yield of cabbage, and to determine the best organic combination on cabbage growth. Various vegetative parameters were measured including head length with and without wrapper leaves, stem length, inner and outer stem diameters, and total head yield. The results of our study showed that some vegetative growth parameters such as stem length, and inner and outer stem diameters were significantly enhanced by the different manure treatments. Cabbage plants fertilized with plant manure had the highest mean values of total head yield. The second best treatment for enhancing total head yield of cabbage was the mixture of plant and animal manure fertilizer. We conclude that plant manure can be used either alone or in combination with animal manure for growing the studied cabbage cultivar.

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Two experiments were conducted to study the effect of two seedling dates and foliar application of Algae extract, Moringa extract, fulvic acid and Mepiquat chloride on some growth and fruit productivity of cucumber plants (Cucumis sativus L.) cv. barracuda at private farm in "Awlad Al-Sharif" village in Dirout city, Assiut Governorate, Egypt. Two experiments were conducted during the successive seasons of 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 inside greenhouses. Spraying cucumber plants was done with two concentrations three weeks after seedling two times at 15 day intervals each. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with a split-plot arrangement in three replications. Seedling dates were assigned in the main plot and foliar application (with two concentrations) was arranged in sub-plot.Results indicate that planting cucumber seedlings early in November under protected agricultural systems leads to significant effect on all traits under the study except fruit length and fruit diameter compared to the second seeding date, respectively. All foliar application treatments and their interactions gave highly response in all traits especially the high concentration of algae (3 g/m 3 ) and fulvic (3 g/m 3 ) compared with other treatments.