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Old 08-25-2008 | 01:09 PM
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Default RE: How important is lime and why?

If you're planting in fertile, well-balanced pH soil.......... lime isn't all that important.

However, if you're planting in soil that's at all acidic- Lime is critical to the plot's success. Liquid Lime can effectively adjust pH levels (upwards) in 30 days or less! I know- I've done it. In the middle of the woods, with soil whose pH levels initially tested at 4.7, I Liquid Lime 'd the piss out of a 17 yard (in diameter) plot- in ONE month, we re-tested the soil........... it was at 6.0. This was good enough to put down Whitetail Institute Extreme and Wintergreens. Now I have a perennial planting that I can build on next year. Clover & Alfalfa need 6.5 pH levels in the soil. If you really want to do it, you can. You just have to spend the time & money.



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