Re: Questions about Soil Amendments

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• Subject: Re: Questions about Soil Amendments
• From: "Lorraine Young" lyoung@npiec.on.ca>
• Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:09:06 -0400
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If your soil is alkaline, you don't want to add lime.  That will make it 
more alkaline.

You want to lower your soil's PH by adding:
peat moss
leaves
sulfur

On 6 Jul 99, Kim Kiernan wrote:

> 
> I know that wood ash can make alkaline soil more alkaline.  Does anyone
> know if any other organic amendments (other than lime) can raise soil PH. 
> Since I have alkaline soil I don't want to be making my soil PH problem
> any worse.
> 


Lorraine Young, Southern Ontario
lyoung@npiec.on.ca


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