On Apr 15, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Oogie McGuire wrote:
>> doesn't mean you should cheat on a liming program
> OK for those of us with extremely high PH soils, where liming is a
> recipe for disaster and should ***NEVER*** be done, Anyone have any
> inexpensive ways to add sulfuric acid to irrigation water?
Get a power plant to move up wind of you. Their smoke has worked
wonders for acidifying our New England soil.
Okay, so that may not be feasible... What is the cause of your high
soil pH? If it is the local rock formations then that could be a very
difficult battle as you're significantly out numbered ionically.
Spreading manure and other decomposable materials will tend to push the
soil toward acid as well as enhancing the available nutrients.
Depending on how large an area you're doing that could be a lot of bull
shit. It could be dripped as a liquid through irrigation pipes if you
don't want to use a spreader. Animals also help spread it but it takes
a fair number or a lot of time..
> Also would appreciate other methods of reducing soil PH. We are
> actually fairly decent with most of our stuff in the 7-8 range. A few
> areas are well over 9 though and most of the valley is in the 9-10
> range. For most folks the irrigation water is PH 9+. Ours generally
> runs about 7 during spring runoff and goes up to about 8 later.
Hmm... great for African cichlids or coral reef farming... maybe you
want to switch crops. :)
