The care of the beds will largely depend on the soil acidity levels in the area.
Therefore, it is important to determine this moment.
Some people buy special products for this purpose, but you can try to determine the acidity levels using folk methods, says Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert at the online publication BelNovosti, an agronomist and landscape designer.
What methods will help with this?
Vinegar and soda
This is a very simple but quite accurate method. With its help, you can determine the acidity indicators almost without error.
You need to proceed as follows.
Take a handful of soil. If it starts making characteristic sounds when in contact with vinegar, then we are talking about alkaline soil. If a reaction occurs in contact with soda, we are faced with acidic soil.
If there is no reaction, then everything is within normal limits.
Leaves of some plants
You need to take a few cherry or currant leaves. Ten pieces will be enough. We put them in a jar with boiling water.
After a few minutes, add the soil.
The green color of the mass indicates that we have good and fertile soil with neutral acidity levels. A reddish tint indicates increased acidity levels.
If the mixture turns bluish, then we can talk about alkali.
Previously we talked about how to deal with wireworms and nematodes .
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
