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Re: Fertilizer

Harold,

Does having a high cation exchange rate (soils ability to retain nutrients)
assist in providing soil, a equilibrium for slow release of nutrients as
required by the plant?

Chris Andersen
Moraga, Calif.
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High salt content can also burn
> > roots, but if the nutrients are applied to the soil, the salt splits
> > apart into component ions and is buffered by the soil, setting up an
> > equilibrium situation so that nutrients are slowly released as the
> > plant takes them out of soil solution.
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