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I have got some blueberries coming and need to make my soil more acidic, I have heard that tea bags can do this and was going to put some at the bottom of the hole so that the roots can get some, does any one know if this is true, and do you know any other ways of making my soil more acid.
Cheers
SB

I don't think tea bags are particularly acid. They have a high tannin content.

I dug lots of pine needles into the soil and then added rhododendron, ericacious, (acid) compost before I planted my blueberries and they are very happy. It has been a very wet summer which they like, and you must never let them dry out in a dry summer (if we ever get one).

If they start to look a bit yellow, give them a dose of sequestrine or Miracid, which you water on.

Hi

As it will soon be Christmas, beg, borrow or steal all your neighbours real christmas trees and shred them.

Use the shreddings as a mulch and this will add acidity

Cheers

Hello skinny,

My Nana has sworn by cold tea to revive house plants and I have to say I have used this advice to great effect.

As for the acidity I will leave that to those of a more informed nature...

I put them in the compost bin but not on my blueberries.