Gypsum Increases the pH of Acidic Soils. One mechanism in which gypsum can increase soil pH enough in some acid soils to sufficiently decrease the level of soluble aluminum to grow crops satisfactorily is replacement of hydroxyl ions from some clay lattices by sulfate ions.
Photo: Getty Images. Lesley Nicol, the actress who plays Downton Abbeyâs often-harried cook Mrs. Patmore, said she pestered series creator Julian Fellowes like he was Daisy about giving her character a man. After months of nudging, he relented. âHe was probably thinking, Oh, shut up already! I had asked so many times,â she laughed.
However, he was snapped out of his care-free life as an amateur apiarist in Middle England by his wife Tuppence, a porcelainfaced picture of 1950's winsomeness played by Call The Midwife's Jessica Raine, who quickly railroads the pair into an unlikely plot of espionage and murder.