Adjusting soil pH levels can be done without using chemical compounds. These organic methods for adjusting soil pH levels without chemicals are proven effective and cheap.
Methods for adjusting soil pH levels
These soil pH levels can be adjusted in the backyard by collecting a few materials in your locality. However, to adjust soil pH levels, you must first check the soil pH level with a soil pH tester.
If you are unsure how well your soil pH tester is calibrated, you can read here how to calibrate your soil pH tester before considering adjusting your soil pH level just to stay right.
1. Coffee grounds
Coffee ground is naturally acidic. Adding coffee grounds to alkaline soil will lower the soil’s pH levels. Lowering a soil pH level is to keep it in the range of 0-7.
2. Sulfur or Iron Sulphate
Adding sulfur or iron sulphate to the soil will lower pH levels. What are the natural sources to obtain sulfur or iron sulphate? These materials can be found in minerals, red soil, food like plantain, and some water bodies containing iron sulphate.
3. Compost
When making compost, most of the time, the idea is to enrich the soil quality regarding soil nutrients, text, water-holding ability, and soil porosity. Composting help to balance soil pH level for the healthy growth of crops.
4. Wood ash or Lime
If you have too acidic soil, using lime powder from grinding lime stones can help increase the soil’s pH level. Thus making it less acidic. In the absence of lime, you can gather wood ash from burning woods, but don’t go burning woods indiscriminately. Thank you. Moving on to the last point.
5. Peat moss
So, here we go in collecting grasses and animal waste from the poultry house, the barn, the kraal, or anywhere you can find animals being kept. Mix their remains with the soil lower the soil’s pH level. Peat moss is naturally acidic.
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