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Article: WINTER'S SALT CAN HURT TREES.(POSTEXTRA)(Gardening)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- December 31, 1997
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Byline: David K. Koester
Salt is likely to be used on Kentucky roads, parking lots and sidewalks for de-icing this winter.
High salt concentrations capable of injuring trees can accumulate in several ways.
Snow in parking lots, mixed with previously applied salt is repeatedly pushed in to piles on landscape strips, thus concentrating salt near trees. Salted highways generate salt spray which can constantly drift into trees.
Sidewalk and street salt applications can readily flow with snowmelt to nearby trees.
When salt seeps into the soil it increases the osmotic potential of the soil water. Because of this, water becomes ...