What's up epic gardeners? Welcome back to the show. Got a late night episode for you. I

apologize for the delay on this one. This question comes from my friend Dewey.

So he says, hey Kevin, so I did a pH test. I'm at 7.5 in two different beds and I wanted to ask about the best methods for adding iron sulfate to lower my pH.

My main bed or beds are about a total of 100 square feet with nothing in them at the moment.

My blackberry bush bed is a small four square foot pad with my bush living in it.

How should I go about adding this iron sulfate? Water it heavy and then

add compost? Well, let's go ahead and answer that and you know as we know blueberries

are a plant that requires or loves a very acidic soil, somewhere

in that 4.5 range actually.

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Okay, let's get back to the question then. How do we lower our soil pH with iron sulfate?

Well, here's something interesting. If you're at a 7.5 and you need to get down to that 4.5

is for blueberries it's actually more effective to use elemental sulfur. It has a more acidifying capability than other types of

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