Salinity
Salinity in Garden and Irrigation water
High salinity level will have detrimental effects in a number of areas.
- Initially, salt makes it more difficult for plants to withdraw water from the soil even if the soil appears to be quite moist. Salt attracts and absorbs water competing with plants for available soil moisture, and as the available soil moisture declines plants have to exert more energy to satisfy their water needs resulting in stressed wilted plants in what appears to be adequate soil moisture conditions.
(work in progress…)