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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Question about salt in my compost, salt in the ecosystem
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:37:23 -0500

In your part of the world (I used to live in W. NC) you should have more than enough rainfall to make your concerns moot. The salts should be carried harmlessly away.

Look into the use of "sea solids" for fertilizer. ACRES USA has carried stories about it for years.

Mathew Waehner wrote:
I am having a hard time understanding salt. I have been avoiding putting
food scraps with any salt into the compost, but it seems that some of the
best soil amendments, such as seaweed and bloodmeal, are fairly salty.

Beyond my question of "how much salt can my compost handle", I want to
understand how sodium moves in an ecosystem, since animals need to
accumulate it but plants need to avoid it.

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Keith Johnson
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