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Acid Soil

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  Posted by Cate (U14417921) on Wednesday, 6th October 2010

  How do I make my soil acid?

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  Posted by David K (U14115317) on Wednesday, 6th October 2010

  Hi, Cate
  
  This sounds an easy question (it's not) and I'll certainly have a stab at answering it.
  But first of all, have you done a pH test on your soil and by how much do you want to increase the acidity and why?
  

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  Posted by thevodkarose (U13048111) on Wednesday, 6th October 2010

  My advice would be to not make it acid as it's a lot of effort for only growing a finite range of plants that *really* need properly acidic soil, and grow acid lovers in large pots that can be sunk into the ground if needed to create a natural "it's growing right there" look.

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  Posted by farmerSteve (U2644680) on Thursday, 7th October 2010

  it is not actually that easy to make soil acid as compaed to making it alkaline through the use of lime
  Any attempt to acidify by the use of inorganic acids would be diffcult and dangerous as they are not pleasant to use
  The regular use of Nitrogen fertilisers will in the long term encourage the soil to become acid but it is a very slow process
  The real problem with acidity is often a surfeit of lime to counter this use sequestered iron. This will work with many species including Rhodedendrons but not all
  The only real way round this problem is to move area I am afraid

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