Water Should Taste Good--To Plants
Taste, as we all know, is something personal. Pure water, containing no dissolved solids whatsoever, tastes completely flat and offers no nutritional value to either plants or animals. Spring water may be delicious to people, containing dissolved minerals which help build strong bones and teeth. But the same water offered to plants may not provide balanced nutrition and indeed may lock-out essential minerals if, for example, calcium or magnesium are present in sufficient quantities.
To achieve balanced mineral nutrition we must start with an understanding of the water source content and the effect that it will have on the nutrient requirement of our plants.
