Noydb wrote in message ...
Frankhartx wrote:

From: Kswck

Kswck wrote:
One note: if you also grow cukes(squash, etc.) in that

garden, they do not like the chemicals for tomatoes. Keep that soil
separate.


This is new information to me. Would you care to elaborate on it?

Bill



It's just lime. Cukes do not like a lot of lime in the soil.

Ahhh ... that is why the below advice is so good. There are other ways to
add calcium to a soil that do not raise the pH, though.

Like my suggestion of adding oyster shell food supplement tablets at
planting time.

Or eggshells .