Re: SIB: Acidifying soil (was Siberian)
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- Subject: Re: SIB: Acidifying soil (was Siberian)
- From: D* <b*@his.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:14:29 -0700 (MST)
Celia wrote:
> Patti reports:
> >I live only yards from a limestone type
> >bluff <snip> I had my soil tested when I moved here and
> >about every other year for many years. It tested over 7 then. I > >have added compost, peat, sulphur, apples and anything else anyone > >could suggest to lower the ph but it is still nearly 7 now.
This reminds me of an experiment we recently did in my Environmental
Biology class regarding acid rain. We took 6 beakers, put granite chips
in the bottom of 3 and limestone chips in the bottom of the other 3.
Then we filled a beaker of each with a pH 3 solution, pH 5 solution, and
pH 7 solution. The limestone acted as a remarkable buffering agent and
brought the pH in all 3 beakers it was in to around neutral in just a
matter of a couple hours (the solutions in the beakers with the granite
chips remained about the same in pH). That limestone bluff near your
yard is the problem, no matter how much acid you try to add.
--
Kim Diamondidis
Germantown, Maryland
boogins@his.com
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