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Why do plants need sand?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Plants need sand to maintain porosity around the roots so that oxygen can easily be made available for respiration. In other wordsplants aren't the ones that need the sand, the soil and the mulch need the sand for better aeration.

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