[Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page

[Dick]

Karen, if there is a retail plant nursery in your area, their personnel 
should know better than anyone what will survive and what might not. They 
have no incentive to decieve you.

With high salt, the critical factor to success is to flush irrigate to 
prevent salts from accummulating in the root zone higher as a result of 
evaporation than exists in your water. Phoenix water is .8 percent. I would 
be surprised if your salt is higher.

Another good technique is to drive around the neighborhood and see what 
plants other home owners have been successful with.

Make a small investment in a few plants and run your own experiment.

Regards,

Dick Gross, Master Gardener Volunteer
U of A Cooperative Extension

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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:35 PM
Subject: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page


> Karen
> 85259
> k.paldan at att.net
>
> We have some property on the Mogollon Rim (zip code 86024) with community 
> wells.  The water is very alkaline.  I need to know if this water can 
> safely be used to water the plants.  My husband is convinced that it will 
> kill them.  The vegatation is native - ponderosa and pinion pines, 
> junipers, various shrubs and annuals.
>
> Thank you in advance for any information you can offer.
>
>
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