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Salts
Growth Products' Low Salt Indexes & Essential® Organics Prevent and Correct Salinity Problems
Excessive salts in your soil - whether from an over-reliance on high salt granular fertilizers or due to reclaimed/affluent water quality problems- are harmful to your turf. Accumulations of salts damage seeds, roots, and plant tissue. In saline soils, water moves out of plant cells (rather than into plant cells), leading to rapid dehydration, burning of foliage, "pruning" of existing roots, and desiccation injury. Even moderate salt levels on a golf course make maintenance difficult.
What to do? Growth Products offers effective solutions. To prevent salt damage, stick with Growth Products' liquid fertilizers. These highly effective fertilizers have some of the lowest salt indexes in the industry. With Growth Products, you won't be creating a problem, or adding to an existing one.
For soils degraded by salts, many golf course superintendents also turn to Growth Products' Essential® Plus, a 100% natural organic soil. Its humic and L-amino acids are complex carbon molecules that literally absorb sodium ions. For an effective fungicide that won't stress your turf with salts, rely on Companion® Biological Fungicide.
Another excellent weapon in your fight against salt is Growth Products' Calcium Chelate 8%, a soluble chelated calcium that neutralizes salts. The addition of calcium chelate to saline soils creates a more porous soil, which allows sodium to naturally leach out of the root zone with rainfall and irrigation. Chelated calcium also increases a soil's cation exchange capacity.
Want to learn more? Read Pass the Salt, a Growth Products News As It Happens.
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