"Robert" wrote in message
...


:
: 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. I am surprised that so many people do not use lime. It is
essential
where I garden in Plymouth as the soil will get 'sour' after too
long
without it as we are acid anyway. It is also useful to put in the
planting
hole to help prevent club root although the experts as usual dispel
this
notion.

Which experts? It is a well established experimental fact that
brassicas are protected from clubfoot by being grownj in soils with pH
in excess of about 8.5

Franz