Sulphur - how should I use this?

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• Bee witched Posts: 1,295

  May 2022

  I've got some sulphur dust in a puffer thing ..... had it for many years.
  
  I very occasionally will use it if I use a knife to split something very fleshy (such as hostas) and expose cut areas.
  
  Bee x
  
  

  Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  
  
  A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  May 2022

  Sorry folks - sulphur is used to LOWER the pH of your soil - ie make it more acid - not the other way round.

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  May 2022

  How very strange @Liriodendron - I've always been told the same as @Lyn

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  May 2022

  Ah yes!   You put it round your hydrangeas to turn them blue,  never thought of that. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  May 2022

  I looked it up on line just to make sure...  never used it though.  

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  May 2022

  Nor me @Liriodendron

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  May 2022

  Thanks for the extra info about acidity especially for the ailing azalea. The bottle allows it to be lightly puffed so I’m trying it around the roses where black spot leaves may have dropped but blue hydrangea sounds good too.It’s only a small bottle so no problem storing it for occasional use.

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