Vegetable & Herbs pH Range
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 extremely high acidity and gradually decreasing in acidity as the number goes up towards the 6.9 soil pH range).
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 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 |
It makes a big difference to the plants if the soil pH is too alkaline or too acidic by even 0.1. For example, artichokes grow best in a soil pH between 6.5 and 7.5. Now if the pH is 6.4 or 5.6, that is enough to make it difficult for artichokes to grow well or even grow at all. Having the incorrect soil pH makes it impossible for the roots to absorb any nutrients.
So if you want to have lush, healthy plants, be sure that they are planted in soil which has the best pH for them.
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