naSRPS EN 13037:2022

Soil improvers and growing media - Determination of pH

Scope

This document specifies an instrumental method for the routine determination of pH in a suspension of soil improvers or growing media with water.
NOTE This method has been validated in an interlaboratory study with specific products that were present on the market during the study (as included in Annex A, being bark (Pinus pinaster, 20 mm to 40 mm fraction), coir pith (0 mm to 12 mm, washed and buffered), biowaste compost (Rottegrad 3), green compost (Rottegrad 5, 0 mm to 15 mm), liquid digestate, expanded clay (whole granules, 8 mm to 16 mm), growing media blend 1 (white peat, green compost, wood fibre, lime, inorganic fertilizer (NPK + micro elements)), growing media blend 2 (white peat, black peat, expanded perlite, lime, organic fertilizer) and growing media blend 3 (white peat, black peat, clay, inorganic fertilizer (NPK + micro elements))).

Related directives

NOTE: If the word "harmonized" (marked in green) is not found in the field with the name of the directive, it means that the European standard is not cited in the OJEU.