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Re: Help with Lupines

> My soil is alkaline, 6.5, and my Lupins thrive. Ward-Lock Gardening Encycl.
> insist they hate alkaline soils. Reader's Digest Creative Gardening
> recommend them for nuetral to acid soils only, but there you are ! Suspect
> that they dislike getting dried out .... here in the west of Ireland we
> have continual, if not continuous ! rain. As most acid soil is moisture
> retentive, and tends to occur in high rainfall areas, could this be the
> connection ?

Your soil is mildly acidic, NOT alkaline, and yes, they'd thrive in a
cooler climate with plenty of moisture.  Watering with tap water tends
to drive up alkalinity due to the nature of processing the water.
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Amy Moseley Rupp
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