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To: blam

This idea is demented. If you do this several years in a row, your soil will eventually not grow anything and the water table will become polluted with one of the most expensive contaminants - - salt.

Something similar happens when you irrigate year after year with hard water. The minerals accumulate in the soil eventually poisoning it.

Organic pollution eventually breaks down over time. Salt will never be anything but salt.


11 posted on 04/29/2008 1:26:45 PM PDT by finnsheep
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To: finnsheep

Plant you tomatoes in high salanity soil to begin with and then water with normal water, huh?


13 posted on 04/29/2008 1:31:43 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: finnsheep
If you do this several years in a row, your soil will eventually not grow anything

Exactly what I was thinking. I fertilize with a good high quality, low nitrogen, fertilizer which contains all the trace elements necessary for a healthy plant. I also use prodigious amounts of bone meal.

Fish emulsion is not a balanced fertilizer and has too much nitrogen for tomatoes.

15 posted on 04/29/2008 1:52:33 PM PDT by Banjoguy (Nancy Pelosi is an anti-American traitor.)
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