Organic Vegetable Gardening - Sarasota County Extension

Water Salts Tests
• Composites of positive and negative ions
which can damage organisms at high
levels.
• Contributed to by soil mineral components,
organic matter components, fertilizers, and
added salts from salt water.
• Salts are an issue in areas where salt
water flooding occurs or where irrigation
water is from a salt-intruded source (salty
well, brackish canal, etc.).