Will salt kill shrubs if poured around the base of the tree?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Why do you want to pour salt around your tree? Salt in large doses is damaging for any plant. It can cause the roots to dehydrate and kill the plant. The smaller the root system the more vulnerable the plant. For example, a teaspoon of salt might kill a clover plant but wouldn't harm a shrub and enough to kill a shrub wouldn't normally kill the tree. Enough to kill the tree would kill everything in the area the tree was. If you are salting plants to kill them salt is not a very good or reliable way. You don't know the dose you need but once you reach that level nothing will grow there until the salt is leached out of the root zone.

Answer 3

There is a good chance if the shrubs are under the tree.

Answer 4

If there is enough, yes it will kill the plant.You will have to wait before planting a new plant.It's about reverse osmosis.the concentration of (salt ,sea or chemical) is higher in the soil than in the roots, therefore the water in the roots travel towards the soil,dehydrating the plant which dies.

Answer 5

Yes - don't do it. If they are shallow rooted shrubs try boiling water - this shouldn't hurt the tree (If it is a big well established tree)

Answer 6

Possibly. Might kill the tree too.

Answer 7

Yes=if it"s a strong solution. Now ==exactly what are you planning to do with this information?? Hmmm======.

Answer 8

yeah, don't expect to grow anything there after you do it - you could end up with a lovely rock garden though.

Answer 9

yes it will and the soil will be infertile for years

Answer 10

You bet!!!!