"What would you advise is the best course of action"
29 January 2016
Another inquiry:
What would you advise is the best course of action with;
1) Bicarbonates in irrigation water
2) Ca, Mg etc in water that makes the water hard??
3) How do you soften the water?
Bicarbonate is not a problem. Don't worry about it. For more, see this or this.
Hard and soft water is not how one should think about irrigation water for turfgrass. Rather, I would look at this, this, or this. The main things to check are the salt content of the water (given as the ECw or the TDS) and the sodium adsorption ratio (SAR).
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