Should I do something to the soil or is this just how it is after a bad hurricaine. My soil is sandy anyhow, and I ive 60 miles from the coast but got lots of damage. Could it be the salt from the gulf?
2006-08-31 16:22:52 · 8 answers · asked by livlafluv 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
You have to think about what is in the water. Oil, gas, sewage, salt, and everything else. Just give the ground a some more time to repair its self. After Rita I am still planting my flowers in planters.
2006-08-31 16:33:41 · answer #1 · answered by luvtohateyou 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can improve the soil with treatment, but be aware that you also are dealing with a far greater problem. Global warming is no longer a debate, and things that thrived before in your area will not do so well for the next 30 years or more depending upon how the peoples of earth deal with the changes we have wrought upon the climate of the earth.
2006-08-31 16:29:38 · answer #2 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Also test your soil to see what chemicals are in there. Depending on how big of an area, you can always start fresh with new top soil, where i am at 3 yards delivered was 66.00 pick it up yourself and its cheaper.
2006-08-31 16:31:34 · answer #3 · answered by DJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
specific, you will possibly desire to initiate of with those little trays first to test which aspects and temperature do they want transforming into on. as quickly as the vegetables or herbs look to develop properly with 3-5 inches tall, you could examine up if there is any bugs biting on them. you could develop your vegetables on the section that has extra sunlight or extra colour. maximum vegetables initiate off with some colour, and then later they are going to wish extra photograph voltaic. Water your flora earlier daybreak approximately 8 AM interior the morning, and after 6 PM, this might scale back the time of watering extra regularly and dropping water. Fertizler- homestead Depot or the sparkling ones that has blended compost. As long the soil is moist on the start or regardless of if that's dried, water it and fill interior the airborne dirt and dust with the fertizler or manure.
2016-11-06 04:48:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could get your soil tested. I live in New Orleans (but the flooding quickly receeded where I live) and most everything I've planted post-K is fine. I've heard that in Chalmette that the grass is a weird color b/c of soil contamination. In New Orleans, I've not seen that.
2006-08-31 17:27:36 · answer #5 · answered by Michelle G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be that lots of the nutrients washed out. Unless you live right by a tributary that MIGHT have saltwater rush into it and onto your soil but I don't think that could have happened.
2006-08-31 16:29:48 · answer #6 · answered by Ron D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turn the soil and rinse it over with a neutralizer this will help neutralize any chemicals from water and will mix the old soil with the new to get it back to where it was
2006-08-31 16:26:30 · answer #7 · answered by pchardbooter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello. It was the storm surge. There is probably salt from the sea water in there.
2006-08-31 17:14:33 · answer #8 · answered by nevels65 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋