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"Loosecannon" wrote:

You'd be thinking of builders lime which is to harsh for the garden.

I've used builder's lime (ie hydrated) in garden beds. I wouldn't throw it
around established plants as it doesn't mix in readily, but if you are digging
over an empty vegie patch, it's not a problem. I think you dig it in at one
cup per sq metre, depending on how much you want to raise the pH. The Sydney
clay belt, where I garden, tends to be quite acidic (I measured it under my
Dad's lawn as 3 once!).

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.