permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

yarrow@sfo.com wrote:
> But what effect does saltwater have on the soil ecology?
>
> At 12:52 AM -0400 8/4/07, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
>
> > Tomatoes Grown in Seawater Healthier Than Regular Kind

Too much of anything can be bad. I imagine that if certain salts or other 
minerals
in seawater build up in soil because they are not completely used up or 
uptaken by plants
or other organisms or are not leached away in runoff they could be toxic to 
plants or
soil dwelling organisms. Which ones, I have no idea. Where is there an analysis of seawater showing its mineral 
components, salts such as sodium (I hear this is not present in large quantities in proportion to potassium salts),
and organic matter(?)? I'd expect you'd need really clean seawater, no toxic metals, pathogenic organisms such as 
listeria, red tode types of toxic algae, toxic chemicals, pesticides, petrochemicals, sewage, and so on.

Find a good source, bottle it up and sell it. While you're at it find 3 or 4o sources of extremely finely ground quarry 
rock dust; mix them together and with large quantities of well water, stir then extract the cloudy liquid; mix with 
seawater, bottle and sell to folks in town with windowsill or container food gardens _and_ those who grow wheat
and barley grass, sunflower and buckwheat sprouts in compost in trays and as a soak for seeds to be sprouted. Thats's a 
really good use for sea and rock dust water plant food.



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