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"Donwill" popple @diddle .dot writes:
| In acid soil and peat what are the acids that make it so?
| Carbonic? a bit weak perhaps?
| Nitric?
| Wouldn't be Sulphuric.
| Can't believe it would be Hydrochloric.
| Any ideas, and where would it come from.

There are a zillion common organic acids, including acetic, lactic,
malic, citric, ascorbic and tartaric. But my understanding is that
soil acidity isn't as simple as that.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.