Welcome to Garden Myths – We are the Garden Myth Busters!
Our Goal: to provide correct gardening information and make you a better gardener.
Our Process: We research topics and examine scientific studies to bust gardening myths. Then we provide FREE blog posts.
Our Experience:
The author of most posts, Robert Pavlis, has 50 years of gardening experience, is an award winning author of 11 gardening books, holds an M.Sc. in chemistry and biochemistry, teaches numerous gardening courses and has written articles for many popular magazines such as Mother Earth News.
Robert has just won the Independent Publisher Book Award for Science with his book, Plant Science for Gardeners.
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Hello Robert….I am just enjoying “Plant Science for Gardeners”. The question I have is about ph. I have soil that I added sulphur to and the ph does not seem to be moving after about 4 months. There is very poor light there. Other samples that I have in a lit area are changing nicely. Would light effect the lowering of ph? Thanks, Greg
Light should not affect the reaction. The change happens because microbes convert sulfur into sulfur dioxide. This will happen faster in warmer soil, so maybe shade keeps the soil cool?
But the reaction is mostly taking place under ground.
Just watch a couple of your videos about starting seeds and raised garden beds. There is a lot of information here but thanks for including the dumbed down info along with it so I don’t get brain overload. It’s the middle of January and I want to do some raised beds in my back yard here in extreme south Alabama. I’ve tried this a half dozen times over the past 20 years with very little success. Watching your videos I see very clearly a few big mistakes I made. So here we go for another try. Thanks your help.