On 7 Jun 2004 15:20:35 GMT, Ignoramus2772
wrote:

| In article , Tom Miller wrote:
| On 7 Jun 2004 01:52:56 GMT, Ignoramus25707
| wrote:
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| | In article , TURTLE wrote:
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| | When ever a bunch of pine Trees have been growing in a area. The
| | ground will become very high level of acid in the ground. Very few
| | plants or grass will grow under a pine tree because of the high acid
| | level of the dirty. To get the high level of acid down. You can put
| | burnt ashes of fire wood or lime down and then till it up to kill
| | the acid level. Get the acid level down and things will start to
| | grow there or wait about 20 years and the acid will dissovle by
| | it'self. Very rarely will you see a lot of brush or green grass
| | under a bunch of pine trees.
| |
| | Thanks, I will add lime to counter acidity, your advice makes complete
| | sense as the ground beneath the pins was barren.
| |
| | Which brings up a question, I planted a few fruit trees where pines
| | grew. Is it too late now to do something to counter the acidity of the
| | soil to help those trees? Would dumping a bunch of lime on the ground
| | help?
| |
| | i
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| Take several soil samples to your local extension service and have
| them tested to find out the actual PH of the soil. Then till in the
| proper amount of lime, per instructions on the bag or in a turfgrass
| book. It takes quite a while for the lime to be absorbed into the soil
| and for the PH to adjust. People generally lime the soil the previous
| fall. Pulverized lime works fastest. You can go ahead and plant the
| grass seed, but best results won't happen until you get into the right
| PH zone (ask the agent at the extension service what this is in your
| area). Blindly "dumping a bunch of lime on the ground" is not the way
| to approach this, although grass is pretty forgiving.
|
| Thanks, I will check about testing ph of my soil. Ibelieve also that
| there are kits to do it.
|
| i

The kits are OK, but often not so accurate. Take several samples from
a few different areas and compare them. Follow the directions with the
kit carefully.