Appendices - Soil Essentials: Managing Your Farm's Primary Asset - page 145

Appendices

Appendix 1. Preferred pH(water) ranges for some agricultural crops

Field crops
Barley 6.0-8.5 Wheat 5.5-8.5 Oats 4.5-8.0

Triticale 4.5-8.5 Ryecorn 5.0-7.5 Rice 5.0-6.5

Canola 6.0-7.5 Sunflowers 6.0-8.0 Linseed 5.0-7.0

Lupins 5.0-7.0 Soybeans 6.0-7.0 Peas 6.0- 7.5

Vetch 5.0-7.0 Maize 5.5-7.5 Millet 5.0-6.5

Fruit crops
Apple 6.0-7.0 Pear 6.5-7.5 Peach 6.0-7.5

Nectarine 5.5-7.0 Almond 6.0-7.0 Cherry 6.5-7.5

Plum 6.5-7.5 Apricot 5.5-6.5 Citrus 6.0-7.5

Grape 5.5-6.5 Walnut 6.0-8.0 Passionfruit 6.0-8.0

Raspberry 6.0-6.5 Strawberry 6.5-7.5 Melon 7.0-8.0

Watermelon 5.0-5.5 Cantaloupe 6.0-6.5

Vegetable crops
Bean 5.5-7.5 Beetroot 7.0-8.0 Broccoli 6.5-7.5

Brussels sprouts 6.5-7.5 Cabbage 6.0-7.0 Carrot 6.5-7.5

Caulifl ower 6.0-7.0 Celery 6.0-7.0 Cucumber 5.5-7.0

Garlic 5.5-8.0 Lettuce 6.5-7.5 Onion 6.0-7.0

Parsnip 6.5-7.5 Peas 6.0-7.5 Potato 5.0-6.0

Pumpkin 5.5-7.0 Spinach 7.0-8.0 Sweet corn 5.5- 7.5

Tomato 6.0-7.0 Turnip 5.5-7.0

Pastures and turf
Clovers 5.5-7.0 Medics 6.5-8.5 Lucerne 6.0-8.0

Serradella 5.5-7.0 Ryegrass 5.5-7.0 Phalaris 6.0-8.0

Cocksfoot 5.0-7.5 Fescue 5.0-7.0 Bent grass 5.0-6.0

Couch grass 6.0-7.0 Gypsophila 6.0-7.5

Cut flowers
Waratah

5.0-6.5 Protea 4.5-6.0 Carnation 6.0-7.0

Chrysanthemum 6.0-7.0 Rose 6.0-7.5 Daffodil 6.0-6.5

Gladiolus 6.0-8.0 Tulip 6.0-7.0 Liliums 5.5-7.0

Freesia 6.0-7.5