I use lime on my vegetable plots and allotment as many vegetables prefer an
alkaline soil.

My area (the Vale of Belvoir) has ironstone as its bedrock and this tends to
make the soil acid - when I tested one of my small veg plots (created from a
lawn which was really just old pasture as it was seemingly simply fenced
when the house was built, and mown from then on as a lawn) it recorded a Ph
of 5, which is VERY acid in soil terms!

I have no difficulty getting lime (I use the ground limestone variety as I
think it's safer) but then again the area is very agricultural. The local
garden centres and 'country store' type of shop all sell it.

It isn't needed in many gardens, but where it is, it makes a real difference
especially to vegetables.

Neil

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"Oxymel of Squill" wrote in message
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what do folk think about lime?

my gardening book has a section on the importance of liming, releases
nutrients, counteracts acidity etc; apparently it's all things wonderful

but local garden shops don't stock it, and the one that does isn't getting
any more once it's gone. He eyes my grey beard and says it's only used by
old people and nobody else bothers

cheers