Epsom salt for garden

          ဟင္းေတြမွာဆားမပါရင္မျပည့္စံုသလုိိ သစ္ပင္ေတြမွာလည္း ( Epsom salt) ဆားဟာအလြန္အသံုးဝင္ပါတယ္။ သစ္ပင္တစ္ပင္ေကာင္းစြာသန္မာၿပီး အသီးအပြင့္မ်ားေကာင္းစြာျဖစ္ထြန္းရန္ Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate)  ကလည္းမ်ားစြာအေထာက္အကူျပဳပါတယ္။ သစ္ပင္မ်ားက လုိအပ္တဲ့ ေျမၾသဇာ ကုိလည္း အသီးအပြင့္မ်ားဆီေရာက္ေအာင္ Epsom salt လုပ္ေဆာင္ေပးပါတယ္။ သစ္ရြက္ေတြမွာအဝါေရာင္လုိအေျပာက္ေတြအေရာင္ေတြရွိလာၿပီဆုိရင္  ဒါဟာ sulfate လုိအပ္ေနၿပီဆုိတာျပတာပါ။ သစ္ရြက္ေတြမွာရွိတဲ့  အေၾကာေၾကာင္းေလးေတြအဝါေရာင္ျဖစ္လာၿပီဆုိရင္ဒါဟာ magnesium လုိအပ္ေနၿပီဆုိတာျပတာပါ။ Epsom salt ထည့္ေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ သစ္ပင္မ်ားအားပုိမုိစိမ္းလမ္းဆုိေျပေစႏုိင္သလုိအသီး အပြင့္မ်ားကုိလည္း ပုိမုိျဖစ္ထြန္းေစပါတယ္။ Epsom salt ဟာ သစ္ပင္ေတြသန္မာယံုတာမက သစ္ပင္ေတြမွာက်ေရာက္ႏုိင္တဲ့ ပုိးမႊားအႏၲရယ္ကုိလည္းကာကြယ္ေပးပါေသးတယ္။ အေသးစိတ္အသံုးျပဳပံုကုိေအာက္မွာၾကည့္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။

House plants:  အိမ္ထဲမွာအလွစုိက္ေသာ သစ္ပင္မ်ားအတြက္ ေရတစ္ဂါလံနဲ႔ 2 tablespoons of           Epsom salt ေဖ်ာ္ၿပီး လစဥ္ ေလာင္းေပးပါ။

Roses:         ႏွင္းဆီပင္မ်ားအတြက္ ႏွစ္ပတ္တႀကိမ္ ႏွင္းဆီပင္ရဲ႕အျမင့္အတုိင္း       1 tablespoon per foot of plant height per plant ကုိေရတစ္ဂါလံနဲ႔ေရာၿပီး ေလာင္းထည့္ေပးရပါတယ္။   ႏွင္းဆီပင္စစုိက္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာလည္း ေျမႀကီးထဲကုိ  Epsom salt one tablespoon ေလာက္ထည့္ေပးရင္ပုိေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ႏွင္းဆီပင္တပင္လံုးကုိလည္း Epsom salt one tablespoon နဲ႔ေရတစ္ဂါလံေရာၿပီး အပတ္စဥ္ ပတ္ျဖန္းေပးျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ပုိးမႊားအႏၲရယ္ကုိလည္း ကာကြယ္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။

Peppers:     ျငုပ္ပင္မ်ားအတြက္ အဖူးအပြင့္မ်ား စတင္ထြက္လာတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt with a gallon of water ေရာၿပီးျဖန္းေပးပါ။ ေနာက္ထပ္၁၀ရက္ၾကာတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ထပ္မံပက္ျဖန္းေပးပါ။

Tomatos:    ခရမ္းခ်င္ပင္မ်ားအတြက္ အပင္ရဲ႕အျမင့္အတုိင္း 1 tablespoon per foot of plant height  per plant. ႏွစ္ပတ္တစ္ခါ ပတ္ျဖန္းေပးပါ။

   

Lawns, Trees & Shrubs:

·         For lawns, use 3 pounds of Epsom salt for every 1,250 square feet. Apply with a spreader or dilute the Epsom salt in water and use a sprayer.

·         Trees absorb Epsom Salt best over the root zone. Use 2 tablespoons per 9 square feet by diluting in water. Apply 3 times each year.

·         For shrubs (evergreens, azaleas, rhododendron), apply 1 tablespoon per 9 square feet over the root zone by diluting in water. Apply every 2 to 4 weeks.

Fruit:

·         Mix Epsom salt with water at a ratio of about a quarter-cup of Epsom salt per 500 square feet when you irrigate your plants.

·         Fertilizer can cause salt buildup in soil, and the Epsom salt helps separate fertilizer bound to the soil, making the nutrients more available to the plants.

·         Commercial growers say it reduces the total amounts of fertilizers you need, and makes the fertilizers you use more effective.

·         Some growers swear that the use of Epsom salt as a secondary nutrient makes their fruit sweeter.

Garden Startup:   Sprinkle 1 cup per 100 square feet. Mix into soil before planting.

Fertilize your soil in the winter, about a month before growing season starts, and then add Epsom salt when you set the plants. Use an eighth of a pound of Epsom salt—or about a quarter-cup—per 500 square feet. With sandier soil, you may want to fertilize about two weeks before growing season begins. Look for yellowing between the veins of leaves, because it could be a sign of magnesium deficiency that might require Epsom salt.