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This week's gardening column addresses the importance of neutral pH in your garden soil, as well as why "princess trees" are ...

You know cream of tartar from the kitchen, that little white powder that keeps your meringues from collapsing, but it's got a secret life in the garden. This modest household baking ingredient, also ...

A new study reveals that soil acidity plays a critical role in determining how wheat competes with soil microorganisms for nitrogen, a nutrient essential for plant growth and global food production.

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Many popular landscape and fruit species like blueberries, rhododendrons, and azaleas grow best in moderately acidic soils. It is because low pH improves the availability of iron, manganese, and other ...

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To be a successful gardener, one needs to have a basic understanding of the soil which you are tending, as well the factors which affect the fertility, pH and quality of the soil. This is the case ...