"Robert" wrote in message
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:
: If you want real lime, try a builder's merchant, especially one
who
: sells lime mortars.

Builder's lime is a different thing altogether and is inactive on
the
garden.

That is quite incorrect. Builders' lime is Calcium Hydroxide, known
as "slaked lime" It is an alkaline material which is very frequently
used to treat acid soil.

[snip]

Franz