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  • From: jhecksel@voyager.net
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Mulching acid loving plants
  • Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:29:38 -0800

Hello all:

And you thought we were done with this thread 8-)

I had a passing thought regarding the mulching of acid loving plants.
Much ink is spilled over the availability of various elements as a
function of pH. There is a fairly narrow band of pH that has decent
solubility for most micro-nutrients and phosphorous. The implicit
assumption is that the entire rootzone (rootball?) will be homogenous
with regard to pH. I think this is both simplistic and undesirable.
Having a rootball stratified with respect to pH virtually guarentees
that ALL elements will be highly available to the plant somewhere in the
rootball.

OK, back to our regularly scheduled programs.

-Joe Hecksel
Eaton Rapids, Michigan


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