Soil pH Preferred by Veggies & Herbs
Every vegetable, flower, herb, tree, shrub has a preferred soil pH range. If your plants are not growing well, perhaps the problem is that the soil does not have the proper pH for it. So if you have a meter, you can quickly find out the pH of the soil in question, then check this list and see if your soil’s pH needs adjusting.
As mentioned in the previous post “Soil pH Meter“, when the meter’s needle points to any number from 1 to 6.9 on the meter, your soil is acidic (how acidic depends on the number with 1 being high acidity and gradually decreasing in acidity as the number goes up).
If the needle stops on any number from 7.1 to 14, your soil is alkaline.
Below is a chart listing different vegetables and herbs and the soil’s pH range in which each one will grow best.
Vegetables and Herbs | |
| Name | pH Range |
| Artichoke Asparagus Basil Bean (Runner, Broad, French) Beetroot Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Calabrese Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chicory Chinese Cabbage Chives Corn – Sweet Cress Courgettes Cucumber Fennel Garlic Ginger Horseradish Kale Kohlrabi Leek Lentil Lettuce Marjoram Marrow Millet Mint Mushroom Mustard Olive Onion Paprika Parsley Parsnip Pea Peanut Pepper Peppermint Pistacio Potato Potato – Sweet Pumpkin Radish Rice Rosemary Sage Shallot Sorghum Soyabean Spearmint Spinach Swede Thyme Tomato Turnip Water Cress | 6.5 – 7.5 6.0 – 8.0 5.5 – 6.5 6.0 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.5 6.5 – 7.5 5.5 – 7.0 5.5 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.0 5.0 – 6.5 6.0 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.0 5.5 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.0 5.5 – 7.0 5.5 – 7.5 5.0 – 6.0 5.5 – 7.5 6.0 – 8.0 6.0 – 7.0 6.0 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.5 6.0 – 8.0 5.5 – 7.0 6.0 – 7.0 6.0 – 8.0 6.0 – 7.5 6.0 – 6.5 7.0 – 8.0 6.5 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.5 5.5 – 6.5 6.0 – 7.0 7.0 – 8.5 5.0 – 7.0 5.5 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.5 5.0 – 6.5 5.5 – 7.0 6.0 – 7.5 5.0 – 6.0 4.5 – 6.0 5.5 – 6.0 5.5 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.0 5.0 – 6.5 5.0 – 6.0 5.5 – 6.5 5.5 – 7.0 5.5 – 7.5 5.5 – 6.5 5.5 – 7.5 6.0 – 7.5 5.5 – 7.0 5.5 – 7.0 5.5 – 7.5 5.5 – 7.0 6.0 – 8.0 |
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April 17th, 2010 22:36
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May 20th, 2010 01:19
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September 8th, 2010 15:21
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October 23rd, 2010 12:04
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December 16th, 2010 02:16
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