Sentences with phrase «highly alkaline soils»
Highly alkaline soils are good for peonies and peas, while blueberries and azaleas love acidic soil.
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But these yield differences are highly contextual, depending on system and site characteristics, and range from 5 % lower organic yields (rain - fed legumes and perennials on weak - acidic to weak - alkaline soils), 13 % lower yields (when best organic practices are used), to 34 % lower yields (when the conventional and organic systems are most comparable).
Working on soil samples from a highly alkaline industrial site in the Peak District, which is not radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination with highly alkaline lime kiln wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the alkaline conditions expected in cement - based radioactive waste.
NPK fertilizer is highly acidic — it disrupts the pH (acid / alkaline) balance of the soil and destroys microorganisms that change soil minerals into a form usable by plants.