Nature Meal for Acid Loving Plants
Keep high acid loving plants healthy and growing with this special blend
Soil alkalinity is an often overlooked component to successful growing. The pH level, or degree of acidity, measured within a soil impacts the ability of nutrients to dissolve and be absorbed by plants. And when plants don’t get the proper amount of nutrients needed, they can’t reach their full growing potential.
Using
Nature Meal for Acid Loving Plants can help bring your soil acid level back into balance. This organic fertilizer uses a special 8-2-2 mixture and a cottonseed meal base to help raise alkalinity to the proper level for maximum growth.
Nature Meal for Acid Loving Plants helps prepare soils for growing nutrient “hungry” crops such as:
- Vegetables: Okra, Corn, Potatoes, Beans, Lettuce, Peppers, Onions, Squash
- Melons: Watermelons and Cantaloupes
- Flowers: Hydrangeas and Lilacs
- Sunflowers
- Rose bushes
- Perennials such as tulips and daffodils
- Spices such as parsley and garlic
Application: For best results, sprinkle
Nature Meal for Acid Loving Plants around the base of the plants, bushes, shrubs, or flowers you wish to treat. One 25 lb bag can treat over 1000 feet of top soil.
More information about Acidic soil
Acid loving plants may need higher amounts of minerals than other types, but all plants require a minimum level of soil acidity for survival. Without the ability to use absorbed minerals to grow, no plant can survive. That’s why 100% natural fertilizers such as Nature Meal for Acid Loving Plants are so beneficial to plant health.
Measuring your soil alkalinity is an easy process. Using a home acid testing kit can give you a preliminary reading on soil pH with fairly accurate results. These tests can often times be acquired either free or at reduced cost through your county extension office. For a more detailed breakdown, soil can be sent to a professional testing laboratory. This is more expensive and time consuming, but the results are far more detailed and have a greater amount of accuracy than the home tests.
Testing is also important because even if soils within a similar region share similar environmental factors like temperature and rainfall amounts, they still can have very different levels of alkalinity and growing potential. pH levels can vary greatly, even in neighboring land plots, due to the fact that cultivated topsoils are treated and react differently to natural landscapes. Natural fertilizers like Nature Meal for Acid Loving Plants can help low pH soils get back where they need to be.
The unique way hydrangeas show alkalinity differences
Testing is not the only way some growers check up on their soil acidity. Some people can tell at a glance, using only the “girls” and “boys” method to help tell them when they need to use more fertilizers.
Hydrangea flowers come in a variety of different shades and colors. But few people know that these differences are more than just cosmetic, and occur because of the elements available to the plant as it grows.
Higher alkaline soils will change the color of some flowers by altering the amount of minerals the plants absorb. In this case, normally pink hydrangeas in a high acid soil are able to absorb more dissolved aluminum compounds. This alters the flower color to blue. That’s how the same flower seeds under similar growth conditions can change from “girls” to “boys” with just a little bit of difference in the soil. Try it out for yourself!