This week’s myth concerns using lime to eliminate moss in our soil. Mosses grow well in acidic soils, and an old myth is to add lime to the soil to change soil pH so that mosses won’t grow.

A lime-requirement test (buffer-pH test) is recommended to more accurately predict the amount of limestone needed to raise soil pH to a desired level. What is limestone ...

I am trying to decide whether to add lime to my garden. What is the best pH range for soil for a vegetable garden? While there is a variation, the majority of vegetables grow best in soils with a ...

For example, if your soil test recommends adding 100 pounds of agricultural lime, add 10 pounds of pelletized. All that being said, there’s no rule that says you ever have to lime your lawn.

Lime is very alkaline so it’s important to use a light hand when applying it to your soil; too much and the soil’s pH will rise to a level that’s inhospitable to plants.

Last week we chatted about soil testing — how to take a proper sample and what exactly a pH test actually tests for, but we left off how to fix our soil should the test identify a problem ...

Adding lime to our soils will push the pH even higher. Soil pH is critical to plant growth and development because nutrients become more or less available as pH varies.

Adding Lime to Your Soil By: Paul Schnare Monday, September 22, 2003 Most soils in the Heartland have developed under oak hickory forests and therefore have a natural pH of about 5.5. On the ...

You also need to add a lot of it in order to make a difference. As a guideline, work about 1 1/2 pounds of lime into the soil around the root ball of a 5-foot-wide hydrangea.

— Lenzy Bond A: I used to recommend adding a tablespoon of garden lime to the planting hole to provide the calcium that prevents blossom end rot. Breaking: At $4.6B, GDOT's largest project ever ...

Many Texas soils are acid soils; that is, the soil pH is less than 7.0. Soil acidity is caused by various environmental, climatic and cultural factors. The most common of these factors are ...