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["Kurt Sonen" <kurts2@gmail.com>]

Close. The leaves and needles will be the pH of the soil that the roots are
in. 
Hence some will be acidic and some will be basic.

Kurt

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 07:22:12 -0500
> From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] pH question
>
> Jerry,
>     Pine needles are not acid.  That's an old wive's tale.  
> It is not true! 
> Pine needles (and Oak leaves, for that matter) are no more 
> acidic than any 
> other green vegetable matter.