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My soil is full of clumps of clay and I'm wondering if this is the answer. Any issues with using it?

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[-] Boozilla@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Check the ingredients, a lot of times it's just soap / detergent. It does work. Some guy on YouTube experimented with it. Sorry, I forget the channel name.

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's on the bottle: polylignosulfonates

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169131717305355

The lignosulfonate is the by-product of wood and paper processing industry, categorized under lignin based organic polymers, and normally considered a waste. It was found that, with increasing lignosulfonate content, the critical hydraulic shear stress of the treated dispersive soil samples increased, and the coefficient of soil erosion decreased

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