Most cultivated plants develop better under a neutral or slightly acidic soil reaction. Different plants have different pH ranges that are favourable for their growth and development. This is reported by AgroTimes with reference to the magazine The Ukrainian Farmer.
A group of crops that includes alfalfa, clover, sugar and table beets, canola, and cabbage grow well on near-neutral, neutral, or slightly alkaline soils.
Sensitive to high acidity are winter and spring wheat, barley, corn, peas, sunflower, cucumbers, onions.
For some plants – rye, oats, millet, buckwheat, tomatoes, flax – a wide pH range is characteristic, they are weakly sensitive to acidity and can grow well in weak and medium acidity.
Potatoes and lupins grow better under acidic conditions and poorly under alkaline and even neutral ones.
The state institution “Institute of Soil Protection of Ukraine” will help answer the following questions:
– what is the acidity of the soil?
– what is the amount of basic nutrients in the soil?
– what should be done to increase the fertility of the soil?
– how much nitrate is in the grown crop?
– etc…