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["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

Bill
 Very interesting and informative.
     Thank you.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.
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Bill,

Apparently simply having limestone in your soil doesn't mean much as far as 
pH is concerned.  A few years ago I was at a soils class at the Penn State 
Master Gardener annual in-service.  The instructor, the state extension 
expert in soils, showed a slide of a landscape with large limestone rocks 
protruding from the soil and mentioned the surprisingly high amount  of lime 
that particular site required to  bring the pH up to 7.0.  I asked him about 
the apparent conflict in limestone soil needing lime.  I expected the 
problem would be keeping the pH down in that situation.  His answer 
basically was that the rock contributed almost nothing to the soil pH.  He 
said it is more dependant on other factors such as organic matter, buffering 
capacity and rainfall pH among others.  So the answer to your question is 
"Maybe".  Pawpaws do seem to like moist (not waterlogged), organically rich, 
acid to slightly acid soils containing sulphur.

Dan Sorensen

At 11:47 9/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:

> I live in a limestone soil region. Would pawpaws do well here?
>
> Bill



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