What is soil pH?

 


Soil-testing kits available and by and large they do a very good job of accurately testing your soil. However, if you are only interested in knowing if your soil is acid or otherwise, without worrying about degrees of acidity or alkalinity, here is a simple test you could make.

First, buy a packet of blue litmus papers from your chemist. Next, using a trowel, take samples of soil from different sections of the area you wish to test. Mix well together.

Then add sufficient of this soil to fill a breakfast cup and pour boiling water over it to form a sticky mass. Then, using a knife, make a slit in the soil an inch or so deep and insert a litmus paper for about three parts of its length. Make sure that both sides of the litmus paper are making contact with the soil and allow it to remain there for 15 minutes. After that time remove the paper.

If it has turned red your soil is acid. If the paper is only faintly red the soil is only slightly acid, but if it turns very red your soil is very acid.

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