Too much garden lime, how to fix?
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Comments (68)"After much thinking and considering, I decided that I'll spend however much I please on my garden. What's more, I don't care whether it's the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do. I spent a large chunk of my life doing the "right thing" because there is no "somebody" to do it--there's only you. I'm done with my efforts to save the world. I like gardening. If anyone else on this planet appreciates or gains from my efforts in the garden, great. But if they don't, it doesn't matter. Gardening helps me to deal with and recover from my efforts to do the "right thing". Gardening fascinates me, and keeps me busy mentally and physically. Gardening amuses my cats. So I'll do and spend as I please for and in my garden." I'll add an AMEN! to that. I give a great deal of time, effort and energy to several charitable causes. I don't have one bit of guilt about what I spend on my yard. I'm actually working part time and, while we're finishing the landscape overhaul, pretty much everything I make goes to the yard. This week I'll be buying stone for the stone patio- doing my part to pump up the economy I guess. Obviously I'm fortunate that my husband can support our family and the money I earn is for the extras. I'm also fortunate to work for a landscape contractor so I get all my plants and materials at wholesale cost which helps a lot....See MoreHow much lime is too much?
Comments (6)Manures tend to be alkaline, so adding that shold help raise your soils pH. Your soil needs that much lime and it needs it all at once, now, in the fall so that maybe by next spring the soils pH will be near what you want to to be. It takes lime a long time to begin to influence your soils chemistry, even if you put down hydrated lime, so putting some down now and more next spring will not be at all helpful for growing much of anything....See Morehow too fix Clay holding too much water.
Comments (3)The only solution to most drainage issues is to incorporate lots of organic matter into your soil, the whole area not just the planting holes since as you have found that will only make a nice easy place for water to flow to and accumulate since OM in the planting hole makes it easy for water to flow. A short term solution may be to make raised beds which will get your plants above that soil that does not drain well. Where adding organic matter to soils to improve drainage will not work is if you have a high water table....See MoreToo much lime in containerized tomatoes
Comments (3)Thank you jean001. We've been observing the tomato plants on a daily basis. They've been getting at least 6 hours of direct sunshine everyday except on cloudy days and we've been using Foliage Pro 9-3-6 liquid fertilizer. We'll try fertilizing more often and see what happens. We really hope that this will fix the problem. We'll write back to the forum with the results. Take care jean001. Jon and Christine...See More- 6 years ago
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