Soil pH advice!

[zazen999]

7-8 is liveable with - 10 you just need to manage it.

google 'growing in alkaline soils' and see what you get - We'll have another think about it tomorrow...and yes - do get onto the lottie bloke in the meantime.

Raised beds would be alot easier than digging it out though...and at least you haven't got a leak [we hope] which is much much worse - believe me.

[lynda66]

yeah, thing with raised beds is, i dunno how long they will be there, i may set em all up then get a phone call to say they have the lotties, and once theres nno veggies, then the garden will get a complete redesign, the plan was to get decent soil in there, then decide what to do with it, problem isn't so much digging it out, (neighbour knows someone with a mini digger cheap) as what to replace it with.

what's confusing me most though, is why is my privet so healthy?? ........ unless the roots go below whatever is causing the problem, but theres privet at the bottom of the hill, so i'd have thought there would be run off ....... oh my head hurts

yeah, it's definitely not a leak, there is nothing to leak, and if it was a leak, the back garden would be affected not the front

anyway, whatever it is it needs correcting, cos i really don't want to pave it, and i think that's all it's suitable for at the moment

Quote .... on searching growing in alkaline soils

As the pH rises beyond 8 however, measures need to be taken to reduce the soils alkalinity, and under conditions where the pH reaches 8.5, virtually no plants are able to grow properly.

[Rocketron]

Soil acidity... How to adjust the soil pH in your garden

This may be of some help.