For example, strawberries seem to give sweeter fruit in an acid soil.

Aluminium is primary among the factors that reduce plant growth on acid soils.

It took years to clear, contour and correct the acid soil with fertilizer.

The acid soil obliterated any environmental evidence about this.

The park's open slopes and woods are based on lowland acid soils.

The mushrooms were growing in clusters on the forest floor from acid soil, surrounded by dead plant matter.

The planting suggestions for this garden include many plants that require an acid soil.

It can be difficult to grow well; acid soil is unsuitable, as are poor, dry conditions and full sun.

Like others of its kind it is a calcifuge and prefers an open, sunny site in acid soil.

Hydrangeas also do not cotton to lime, which is good news for those of us with acid soil.

Roses prefer slightly acid soil (a pH of 6.5 to 6.9 is usually cited as ideal, but anything down to 6 is fine).

Plants prefer a neutral to slightly acid soil and will suffer in very acid or alkaline soils.

Both should thrive in moist semishade, in neutral to slightly acid soil.

Sharp-lobed hepatica blooms more fully in my garden than the round-lobed hepatica (H. americana), which prefers a more acid soil.

Most of the parish has free draining slightly acid loamy soil.

The northern third of the borough is flatter and fertile with free draining slightly acid loamy soil, similar to the south, as described in the Surrey article.

With 7 as neutral, pH 6 would represent slightly acidic soil, while lower numbers like 5 and 4 would indicate quite acid soil.

And like its relatives, highbush blueberries also need extremely acid soil.

Prefers a light sandy neutral to slightly acid soil with a pH between 6.5 and 7[1, 200] in a sunny sheltered position.

Czechoslovakia has been using helicopters to spray lime on its most acid soils, a technique others criticized as costly and too much of a shock therapy.