How To Adjust Your Soil pH Up or Down - Products To Use

How To Fix Your Soil pH Easily

One of the biggest questions we get is “how do I raise the pH in my soil” or on the flip side “how do a lower the pH in my soil?” If you have taken a soil test, you have the data telling you where you pH sits. You’ve also been told “get this fixed”, but that has been a sometimes confusing, often gray area. Just getting “lime” or “elemental sulfur” isn’t always easy, until now.

Why Adjust Your pH?

Grass likes to grow in soil with pH between 6 and 7.3. 

When outside of these parameters, nutrients in the soil can be “locked up” and therefore are unavailable for the grass roots to utilize them. So if your pH is either too acidic (low) or too alkaline (high) then you may not be getting the maximum benefit from your soil or from your fertilizer that you apply. The good news is, now there is an easy way to move your pH up or down and it comes from our new partners, Jonathan Green.

If you have Low pH soil: Your current reading is below 6.2 (acidic) and you want to raise it, you want this Mag-i-Cal PLUS Soil Food for Acidic Soils with soluble Calcium Carbonate (black bag) to start moving it upwards. Apply now and again next year in spring and fall and then retest the following year and see how you did. 18 lb bag covers 5,000 sq ft.

If you have high pH soil: Your current reading is above 7.3 (alkaline) and you want to lower it, you want the Mag-i-Cal PLUS Soil Food for Alkaline Soils with sulfur and calcium sulfate dihydrate (purple bag) to start moving it downwards. Same as above, apply this now, and then again next year in spring and fall then retest the following year and see how you did. 18 lb bag covers 5,000 sq ft.

Be sure you get the right bag though! It’s sometimes hard to tell the difference so we made a photo that is in the listing as well. Black bag Raises pH, purple bag Lowers pH.

We cannot do returns - the shipping back and forth costs way too much so be sure that you read the description and look at the pics. 

2 applications per year recommended, but in extreme cases, 4 per year may be needed. This product will not burn your lawn, no fear.