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Epsom Salts - Yes or No

Market BoyMarket Boy Posts: 101
in Plants

Hi Fellow Gardeners.

What are your views on sprinkling Epsom Salts around plants in the Garden and for Fruit & vegetables.

I am interested in finding your views as some say use it all the time others say don't bother. What if you do, do you use Epsom Salts for and why.

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    I have only ever used it as a foliar feed - 15ml of salts to 5litres of water - on plants looking a bit chlorotic but then my last garden was exceedingly fertile.   Parts of this one are too but parts have never been cultivated and seem to have solid clay or sand in different bits.   I have Epsom salts on standby for my new rhodos and camellias, just in case but they will be used only as a foliar feed.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Market BoyMarket Boy Posts: 101

    Thanks for your input. I will have a go with ES as a foliar feed as advised next season and see how I get on. 

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