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reccomended spacing of soil samples accross a site
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| how do you treat soils high in salt? |
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| Leaching, sometimes with special additives, till salt is below root zone. One common source of salt is water provided from the sewage treatment facility for irrigation, so trying to wash salt away with this water is not going to work. |
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| ID features of anaerobic soils |
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| foul smelling, wet, gray/black/blue color, greasy-feeling |
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root symbiants. Act as an extension of root hairs, reaching out for nutrients, esp. nitrogen. The trees feed them sugars. improve disease resistance, maybe through phenolic compounds. Nitrogen fertilizers hamper their nitrogen collecting abilities by creating a carbon-nitrogen imbalance.
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| area of tree most able to accept water(area to apply irrication) |
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| top two feet, around the drip line. at or below the pace the soil can infiltrate the water. |
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| irrigation device. fills a gravel filled depression at least as deep as the root ball in a plant's root zone with water. A tree needs at least two. |
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reside in soil pour spaces in a semi-gaseus state. place them in the upper two inches of soil(above established roots). Seeds trying to put roots wodn through these pours are killed. Last 90 days.
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