Soil pH and Nutrient Availability
Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ in a Minute
Episode Archive
Episode #133 | Original Air Date: September 2, 2020
Related Resources
- Ask IFAS: Soil pH and the Home Landscape or Garden
- Ask IFAS: Managing pH in the Everglades Agricultural Soils
- Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Guide to Plant Selection & Landscape Design
Transcript
When plants are grown in soils with a high or alkaline pH, they can sometimes suffer from repeated nutrient deficiencies.
This is because nutrients like iron and manganese are in forms that are unavailable to plants when the soil pH is high.
Ixora is an acid loving flowering plant that’s widely grown in Central and South Florida, but it often suffers iron or manganese deficiencies due to high soil pH.
So if you live in an area with a high pH soil, use the Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Plant Guide to help you choose plants suited to these conditions. That way you’ll end up with the right plant in the right place.
Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ in a Minute is a production of the University of Florida’s Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program, IFAS Extension, and WUFT-FM in cooperation with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
