Question

Potatoes grow well on Anhad’* farm which has soil with a pH of 5.5. Anhad decides to add lot of lime to soil so that he can grow broccoli in the same farm :

(a) Do potatoes grow better in acidic or alkaline soil ?

(b) Does broccoli grow better in acidic or alkaline soil ?

Answer 1

(a) Potatoes grow better in acidic soil having pH = 5.5

(b) Broccoli grows better in a lkaline soil since adding a lot of lime to acidic soil will make it basic in nature.