How to Use Trace Element Salt for Plant Growth

All plants need certain minerals to survive, including salt. Unfortunately, salt fertilizers often contain the wrong kinds of salt. Urea, alkaline and chemical salts all build up in the soil and prevent your plants from absorbing the right elemental trace salts. Without nutrients, your plants wither and die. If you want to keep your garden organic and give your plants a treat, try Epsom salts. Epsom contains magnesium and sulfur, two things many plants love.

Distilled water
2 gallon glass jar
Epsom salt
Measuring spoons
Wooden stirring stick
Plastic or glass spray bottle

Instructions

- 1
  Fill a 2 gallon glass jar with room-temperature distilled water. Measure out and pour 2 tablespoons of Epsom salt into the jar. This seems like a small amount of salt, but "trace element salts" refers to minuscule amounts of salt in the soil or water.
- 2
  Stir the water with a long wooden stirring stick until the salt dissolves. If salt settles to the bottom of the jar, the mix is uneven and the plants will get a huge dose of salt when you start to run out of water.
- 3
  Water each small plant with about half a cup of the salted water and 1 cup of unsalted water. Think of the salted water as a fertilizer; you don't want to overfeed your plants, so you should use it sparingly.
- 4
  Pour some of the salted water into a plastic or glass spray bottle when your plants begin to bloom. Most fruits, veggies and edible plants have flowers.
- 5
  Spray the flowering plants with the salted solution. The plants will absorb the additional food through their leaves.

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