To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [nafex] Soil pH 5.0 -- with these minerals, no need to lime?
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 20:11:10 -0500
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Ordinarily, I would be concerned with the fact that the pH will be 5.0 --
> however, with the presence of the specific minerals in the soil, I wonder
> if these abundance/presence of these will help compensate for the low pH.
>
> The mineralogy is dominated by quartz and feldspars -- with some mica and
> ferromagnesian minerals.
>
Apply to the soil surface & forget tillage to raise pH:
dolomitic lime, pulverized
high calcium lime, pulverized
oyster/seashell, pulverized
aragonite
siltation pond fines from local rock quarries (rock dust)