Potatoes grow well on Anhad's 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?
(a) pH 5.5 indicates that potatoes grow better in acidic soil.
(b) Adding lime to this soil will increase the pH of the soil by making it alkaline. Hence broccoli grow better in alkaline soil.