By Brendan Williams, (age 11).
We did some ph testing recently of our soil. We took samples from the top field, bottom field, middle field (the garden) to see if it was acidic or alkaline for our little plants. Oops I didn’t even explain what we did. We got 3 jars, put some ground up soil into the separate jars, added water, then waited (a few impatient days). After it had settled, we put the water into a test tube, then added a ph solution and barium sulphate. We shook the test tube to mix them together. We checked against the chart. Dark green for alkaline, pale green for neutral, slightly acidic is pink and very acidic is red. All 3 of our samples were neutral! We were quite surprised in the garden sample, cos there was SO MUCH PLASTIC and creeping buttercup there, yet it was fine (amazing, right?) Now we know that our plants should be happy with the soil.
Hope you enjoyed my first blog 🙂
Nice clear explanation Thanks!
Well done Brendan – that’s a useful bit of information. A job I need to do. Give J a ring sometime x
In case you are wondering who the gastronomic gardener is it’s Catherine RW. I’m having a go with a blog as of yesterday and being rubbish at getting it to do what I want! Might need some help!