Deicing
Over Ac years the amount of
salt and related deicing materials
used for roads and walks has in
creased. For example, heavily tra
veled highways receive 40 to 80
tons of salt per lane mile per year
during heavy snow seasons.
Excessive salt amounts may in
jure plants. Salt may accumulate
in the soil near the root system.
Salt harms plant’s root systems
even when the ground is frozen.
This happens when salt-laden
snow and ice are moved from
walks, drives and streets onto
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Materials Can Harm Plants
lawns- and landscape beds. Rock
salt absorbs much of the water that
would normally be available to
roots. Even when soil moisture is
adequate, large amounts of salt
can cause a drought-like condition
in the soil.
Overall, plants vary greatly in
their tolerance to high concentra
tions of salts. Shrubs that are sen
sitive to high salts in the soil in
clude roses, hollies, cotoneaster,
podocarpus, photinia, and vibur
num. Moderately tolerant shrubs
include pivet, juniper, pyracantha.
boxwood and taxus. Eqonyraus
has good tolerance to salt.
Trees that are sensitive to high
calcium chloride salts include the
American elm, basswood, red and
white pine, hemlock, ted and sug
ar maples and shagbark hickory.
Moderately tolerant trees include
Austrian and pitch pines, birch,
red and white oak, black cherry,
white ash and poplar.
Trees with good tolerance in
clude Russian olive, thornless
common honey locust, Japanese
black pine and black locust
Airborne salt may also become
a problem. When salt is deposited
on plant parts, buds and small
twigs of some species can lose
their cold hardness, and they are
more likely to suffer winter injury.
Evergreen plants are particilar
susceptible.
PREVENTION
The best way to prevent salt in
jury to plants is to avoid their use
around landscape plants. When
possible, use calium chloride to
melt ice. It costs more than com
mon rock salt, but it is far less tox
ic. When salting areas near shrub
bery and trees use up to one half
pound of rock salt or calcium
chloride per square yard of sur
face. Don’t be tempted to apply
more unless it is actually needed.
Also, allow time for the material
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DEICING ALTERNATIVES
Gypsum, or calcium sulfate may
be used in conjunction with sod
ium chloride to reduce plant in
jury. Gypsum also helps relieve
soil compaction caused by salt.
Fertilizers can also melt ice and
snow. A large amount of fertilizer
is needed to achieve the same af
fect as calcium chloride. For ex
ample, urea fertilizer will melt ice
and snow when surface tempera
tures are above 11 degrees Fah
renheit. Urea can be applied at
rates of 10 pounds per 100 square
feet This will also supply about
4.5 pound of nitrogen per each
100 square feet area.
Complete fertilizers also pro
vide melting and traction mater
ials. The nitrogen and potash in
fertilizers serve as melting agents,
and the phosphate, generally in the
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form of superphosphate, will pro
vide uaction. Two to three pounds
per 100 square feet will help con
trol ice and snow accumulation.
Sand, cinders, sawdust, ash or
lights gravel can all improve safe
ty for pedestrians and vehicles.
Combine these materials with a
melting chemical for faster melt
ing. For example, sawdust can be
combined with calcium chloride
for fairly-lasting sidewalk control
of ice and snow. Over the years,
Penn State has tried a mixture of
one part calcium chloride and
three parts sawdust. It can be
hand-mixed when needed and ap
plied with a small shovel. The ab
sorbent sawdust holds the calcium
chloride while it provides traction.
The mixture remains on die sur
face well and can be swept in the
morning. Rain also helps to dis
pense and flush sodium in the soil
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