Soil pH in Tillman, OK: Lime or Sulfur?

Typical topsoil pH in Tillman, OK

Typical topsoil in Tillman, OK is pH 7.38 and calcareous, so sulfur won't lower it for long. For vegetable garden, choose alkaline-tolerant varieties and add compost rather than fighting the soil.

What Tillman needs, by plant

• Beds or pots instead: lawn (cool-season grass), vegetable garden, tomatoes, potatoes, strawberries, roses, blueberries, azaleas and rhododendrons, blue hydrangeas, pink hydrangeas.

What to do next

If your test confirms pH near 7.38, consider raised beds for anything acid-loving; with 41% of soils here carrying free lime, sulfur will not hold.

How mixed the soil is

Of the 528,682 surveyed acres in Tillman, OK, 63% are alkaline (above 7.3), 33% are near neutral (6.5-7.3), 4% are moderately acidic (5.5-6.5). Mapped soils run from pH 6 to 8.2, a spread of 2.2 units across 178 soil components. 63% of the land falls in one class, so the county figure is a fair first guess for most yards here.

Clay, organic matter and rates

Topsoil here averages 23.7% clay and 1.48% organic matter, which this site treats as loam. Moving it one pH unit takes about 7 lb of lime or 2.3 lb of sulfur per 100 sq ft. 41% of mapped components carry free carbonate (lime already in the ground), enough that sulfur gets neutralised before it does much.

Tillman against the rest of Oklahoma

pH 7.38 is 0.83 above the Oklahoma median of 6.55. 68 of 77 Oklahoma counties have more acidic topsoil. Nationally it is more alkaline than the US county median of 6.05.

Closest in pH within the state: Woods (7.34), Custer (7.35), Greer (7.35), Washita (7.36), Harmon (7.4), Jackson (7.4), Dewey (7.41), Kiowa (7.41).

The range in Oklahoma runs from Adair at 5.12 to Beaver at 7.65; Tillman sits 89% of the way up.