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 * Acids and Bases in the Garden**

Most green plants in our yards will have a healthy life if thier pH scale is inbetween 6.0 and 7.0. Most plants will not survive if their is acids liquid such as: coke, ajax, detol, lemon juice etc.. they wont survive if they are sprayed with or any of these are dumped on them, their acid scale has to be between 6 and 7 anything above they have a slite chance of living. Hydrangeas Most of the hydrangeas are white, but in some species, can be blue, pink, red, light purple, a dark purple or a light blue. In these species the color is affected by the pH of the soil, which can be a basic or an acidic. The soil of the particular is important to hydrangeas because its acidity determine. If the soil is acidic with a pH of around 4.5 to 5.0, the flowers will be light blue to electric. Most garden soils are much less acidic. White hydrangeas can’t be changed to pink or blue by the owner. If you live in a hot climate, it’s unlikely you will never see a "true red".

Acids and Plants When an acid, for example Coca-cola hits a plant it kills is it instantly

but, as many people say it is meant to help plant growth with the phophoris acid in it. but plants have their own food that make them survive in coke-cola they has two acids in it one gives flavour and another give the fizzyness. when any acid hits a plant it burns the leaves and the trunk as you see below,

it burns the leaves (as seen above)

Soil Testing Soil Testing, is to see how much acid and base is in the soil. Soil should be neutral. Neutral scale is 7. Acid in the soil can kill plants. Acid can get in the soil from acid rain. acid in the soil can only be between the scale of 5 and 7 the base in the soil can only be between 7 and 9. Websites we uesed: [|www.google,com.au] [|www.wikiepedia.com.au]