Epsom Salt – Epsom Salt for plants
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Epsom salt is a very good natural fertilizer which helps a plant to bloom more
flowers and formation of their fruits. Epsom salt also helps a plant to grow
bushier and enhance its attraction by giving its beautiful green color.
In this article we are going to explain about Epsom salt and Epsom
salt use for plants. We will cover following important points here:
What is Epsom Salt?
Difference between Epsom
Salt and Normal Salt
Benefits of Epsom salt in Garden
How to Use Epsom salt for plants
Side effects of Epsom salt
So let’s start with Epsom salt’s basic introduction:
What is Epsom salt?
Epsom salt is a natural mineral which form in natural condition
and looks like small white crystals. Epsom salts chemical composition name is
Magnesium Sulfate because it made up by an ionic bond with magnesium, Sulfur
& Oxygen. Whenever these
three components react with each other than one new composition take place and
magnesium sulfate generates.
Difference between Epsom Salt and Normal Salt
Most of the people always confuse between Epsom salt and Normal
Salt because both looks like almost same and confuse people and most of people
looks both similar and think that both are same.
But Epsom salt and normal salt are quite different because there
are some most important factors which makes both of them unique and differ to
each other.
First of all, Epsom salt chemical name is magnesium sulfate but
normal salt is known as Sodium Chloride.
Second, we use normal salt for making our foods but in other hand
Epsom salt use for gardening, farming and medical purposes.
Third, Epsom salt made up with a natural ionic bond of magnesium,
Sulfur & Oxygen but in the other hand the Normal salt made up
with an ionic bond of Sodium & Chlorine.
And if we check Epsom salt’s chemical formula then it is Mgso4 but the normal salt
chemical formula is Nacl
So please do not get confuse because Epsom salt and normal salt are
separate things by natural & use.
Benefits of Epsom salt in Garden:
Now we would like to explain about our main part that how Epsom
salt can help us for improving our gardening and farming experience.
If we use it for agriculture purpose then Epsom salt is a good
plant fertilizer because it is a good source of Magnesium and Sulfur nutrients.
These Both micro nutrients are most important part of plant growth
and play a wide role for growing and developing of any plant.
If we check its benefit then we found that Epsom salt help a plant
in following ways:
Epsom salt is pure form of magnesium sulfate and magnesium
required for the production of chlorophyll by which a plant can make their food
with photosynthesis process. Magnesium help a plant to build the blocks of
chlorophyll and due to this the plant leaves appear green and shiny.
Sulfur helps a plant to develop anti disease property by which a
plant not affect by any disease easily and grow well in difficult environment.
Sulfur produces some helpful proteins, amino acids, vitamins and enzymes
due to them a plant bloom more flowers and also forms their fruits.
Overall magnesium and sulfur are most important part of plant
nutrients for getting balance growth.
How to Use Epsom salt for plants:
Epsom salt is a good plant fertilizer and if we use it properly
then it help us in the care of plants and crops. But we should always know that
how we should use it in proper way so that we can get good result.
So there are two ways for using Epsom salt for plants as a
fertilizer-
Step-1
In the first method, we can direct mix it with plant soil and for
doing this we can take a small quantity of Epsom salt and spread it over the
plant soil.
After this step we should mix it properly into soil by tilling and
turning process and apply watering so that Epsom salt will mix with plant soil.
By this way of using Epsom salt, plant can get enough magnesium
and sulfur by its rooting system and use at the time of requirement to grow
well.
Step-2
In the second method, we can take one litter of clean water into
our foliage spray bottle and mix one table spoon of Epsom salt in it. And After
mixing process well we should use it as a foliage spray over our plants leaves.
We can apply this second step on all plants including vegetables like Tomatoes,
Chilly, Spinach and more. And when we spray this solution over the plants
leaves then the plant can get Magnesium and Sulfur by its leave’s porches and
use to grow well.
Side effects of Epsom salt:
However Epsom salt is a good plant fertilizer but there are some
side effect if we use it in an uncontrolled way. So here we are explaining some
side effects of using Epsom salt on plants
If we use it more frequent then it can harm our plants so we
should not use Epsom salt for plants more than once/month because it also
promotes soil toxicity and makes soil toxic. And if we use more Epsom salt for
plants then our plants start wilting and slowly it can die also. So we should
always use its control quantity which is as follows
If we are using Epsom salt as foliage spray
If we are using Epsom salt for our plants as a foliage spray then
we should use it in the proportion of 10 gram/litter water.
Epsom salt use in direct soil
If we are using it direct in soil then also it should be not more
than 10 gram/square feet of soil otherwise it will make our plant soil toxic
and plant will not survive.
So overall Epsom salt is a good fertilizer for plants but the
control method is highly required to get desired result otherwise it may become
a nightmare for harming our garden plants.
I hope this information will help you all to know about use of Epsom
salt as a plant fertilizer. For any suggestion and query you are always welcome
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Team
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