Gardening outside for the first time and I bought one of those soil
test kits to see if there was anything unusual. Of course when I
opened it found it required distilled water--had none in the house.
I'll have to run out for some tues or wed.

For a lark I performed a pH test on the house water which I use to
water plants. it showed a pH of 8.0. Has anyone performed a pH test
on their water and found similar results? I'm wondering if this is
normal for city/suburb water or whether this will result in a higher
pH as i continue watering plants.

I'll know better if it has affected my soil from the last two months
of watering when i test it later this week.
DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:48:36 -0400, DigitalVinyl
wrote:

Gardening outside for the first time and I bought one of those soil
test kits to see if there was anything unusual. Of course when I
opened it found it required distilled water--had none in the house.
I'll have to run out for some tues or wed.

For a lark I performed a pH test on the house water which I use to
water plants. it showed a pH of 8.0. Has anyone performed a pH test
on their water and found similar results? I'm wondering if this is
normal for city/suburb water or whether this will result in a higher
pH as i continue watering plants.

I'll know better if it has affected my soil from the last two months
of watering when i test it later this week.
DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)


That's about normal, city water departments treat the water so it runs
about 8.0, this is to lessen corrosion damage in their distribution
systems.

there is a lot of discussion about thin in the aquarium groups.


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- Charles
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-does not play well with others

very common. they add sodium hydroxide to bring the pH up so the water wont leach
lead or other metals outta old pipes. Ingrid

DigitalVinyl wrote:
For a lark I performed a pH test on the house water which I use to
water plants. it showed a pH of 8.0. Has anyone performed a pH test
on their water and found similar results? I'm wondering if this is
normal for city/suburb water or whether this will result in a higher
pH as i continue watering plants.

I'll know better if it has affected my soil from the last two months
of watering when i test it later this week.
DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)



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