O.T. one of those things that make you go huh?

usetob · Mar 9, 2010

Just go a call from a guy I cut & bale hay for, said he heard at his work place that if you put salt on your grasss after the first cutting it would make it grow faster.
No I haven't been drinking but I wonder about him! what do you think?
Ron

MF165farmer · Mar 9, 2010

He's gonna have to buy an awful lot of salt for nothing LOL

JD2ACWD · Mar 9, 2010

what do you think is in most fertilizers?

usetob · Mar 9, 2010

go ahead teach me

Anonymous-0 · Mar 9, 2010

Potassium salts not sodium.

James Howell · Mar 9, 2010

You might share this website with him before he puts <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4886848_salt-damaged-grass-lawn-turf.html">salt on grass</a> after his first cutting.

JayinNY · Mar 9, 2010

After the salt burns it, he will be sorry!

D.B. in Mi. · Mar 9, 2010

You put it down after the first cutting, then you don't have to cut for a while, Works really well.

JD2ACWD · Mar 9, 2010

usetob,well if he is going to go to wal-mart and buy out all the morton salt I guess I would say huh,but you did not say what type of salt!have a good one.

Janicholson · Mar 9, 2010

here is a good reason the Utah salt flats have nothing growing on them. There are no reasons to do that! Jim

teddy52food · Mar 9, 2010

Only works on aspargus.

S.Crum · Mar 9, 2010

I used to hand my kids (when they were 3 and 4) each a salt shaker and tell them if they sprinkled salt on a bird's tail it could not fly away and they could catch it. The kids covered a lot of ground and there were many brown spots in the lawn. Didn't matter, I still don't like mowing to lawn. Bird population didn't suffer but didn't see near the rabbits once they gave up on birds and went looking for rabbit eggs.

Keith Molden · Mar 10, 2010

Who ever was telling him that might have meant to put salt on the hay in the barn. Sprinkle some on each layer to aid in drying and prevent the barn from burning down. It does work & the animals eat it really well also. It draws the moisture out of the hay & prevents heat & mold. There was a thread on here I believe yesterday or the day before. Just my thoughts, Keith

tlak · Mar 10, 2010

And water it with sea water.

INCase · Mar 10, 2010

Synthetic (most commercial fertilizers) have chlorides (salts) in them as an impurity. Concentrations aren't enough to kill crops but the microbes don't like it and move away and you loose that advantage in your soil (free fertilizer--- bug manure)

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 10, 2010

Its an old wives tale but it does make cattle eager to eat rotten hay. You would need hundreds of tons of salt to do any drying and preservation. Its been tested and disproved years ago.

Sam#3 · Mar 10, 2010

There's an old story why Brigham salted that lake but it won't be told here. 'bout fishing all summer and . . . and ah staying inside all winter. :>)

JBMac · Mar 10, 2010

I wonder where that trick originated? My dad used to tell me the same thing, we're from N. Florida

Nancy Howell · Mar 10, 2010

My parents told me the same thing. Dad was from Indiana and Mom from Tx. Guess its a national thing.

Rollie NE PA · Mar 10, 2010

Maybe something to it. In the northeast where a lot of road salt is used, the grass, weeds and brush thrive along the roads.

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