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["John Barbowski" <jbarbowski@gmail.com>]

This topic was intensively discussed about 2-3 years ago. Check the NAFEX archives and you will find references to the web sites for the chemistry involved with pine needle decomposition.

 

(to counter your argument that the soil is what the crop is, why not the converse, the crop is what the soil is, namely, only certain things will grow in that pH regime!)

 

jmb

 

On 5/4/07, Kurt Sonen <kurts2@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know a lot on the topic and I don't know what pH southern soil
normally is. But my statement only address the fact that what comes into the
tree is the same as what eventually falls off.

Kurt