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27 minutes ago, Toliver said:I would say a big "NO!" to putting salt in/on your soil. It's a sure way to to kill the land.
This is the problem with salting - once you salt an area, it will be a long time until anything will grow there again - unless you do a lot of flushing!
ETA - I don't think it "kills the land" but it would certainly kill all the beneficial bacterial/fungi (like trichoderma, mycorrhizae, etc) which are essential to allow your plants to take up nutrients in soil.
26 minutes ago, Toliver said:I would say a big "NO!" to putting salt in/on your soil. It's a sure way to to kill the land.
This is the problem with salting - once you salt an area, it will be a long time until anything will grow there again - unless you do a lot of flushing!
