Re: Seaweed and canine perfumes

Erik van Lennep-Hyland wrote:
 
>I have heard
> that ammending the soil with gypsum also counteracts salt problems, but
> have no direct experience with this. Anybody else know about it?
> 
 Erik 
Gypsum is often used to flocculate clays. If you have a sodium-rich clay
it will be very sticky and almost impossible to break up, but by adding
gypsum (calcium sulphate) the calcum from this will gradually replace
the sodium in the clay making it less sticky and more  workable.

Moira

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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, 
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
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