De-icing salts great for roads, sidewalks, bad for plants

When snow falls and cities need to clear off streets and sidewalks, they turn to salts to deice. Salt is great for hard surfaces, but creates problems when introduced to soil and plants. Salts can impact plants in two different ways – via physical contact with plants due to spray, or by salt particle runoff into the soils where plants are present.

Spray will have very noticeable damage on the secti…