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[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

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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