Tulips grow best in soil with a pH range between 6 and 7. If your garden soil has a pH of 4, what should you do before planting tulips? Explain.

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The sweetening of soil:
Tulips thrive best on soil that has a pH range of 6 to 7. Plants thrive best when the pH of the soil is close to 7.
Now that my garden soil has reached a pH of 4, it is excessively acidic and unsuitable for tulips.
I'll start by sweetening the soil before planting tulips.
In order to make the soil sweet, the soil should be treated with quicklime/slaked lime/chalk to neutralize or mildly alkalinize it. This is referred to as soil sweetening.

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