Re: acid-loving plants
- Subject: Re: [SG] acid-loving plants
- From: D* B* T*
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:53:15 -0500
- Importance: Normal
I am able to buy acidic compost from our local city recycling center. I
assume they shred Christmas trees etc. Also can pick up pine needles in our
local golf course and also church compost heap to use as mulch. I doubt
anyone who has a pine-needle dropping tree would mind you picking up
armloads off the ground.
Diann
-----Original Message-----
From: PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of
Lynn Barbee
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:23 AM
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: [SG] acid-loving plants
What do you guys recommend as a way to amend alkaline soil? I had a customer
the other day who wanted to buy acid soil. I assume she thought it was
available in bags, but maybe she knows something I don't. Miracle-Gro now
has amended soil in bags, but I have never seen anything for acid-loving
plants. This is one of those gardening topics with lots of opinions and ways
of doing things. How many of you use sphagnum peat? What about aluminum
sulphate? Just plain old Mir-Acid, no soil ammendments? We live in zone 5,
NW Indiana. I don't think fertilizer alone will do the trick, but I know
some who do just that. Maybe the answer is, as our county extension always
likes to say, "It depends."
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