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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

I'm not sure about the lime, though. I don't think lawns want it on
any but insanely acid soils. And, in my experience, there are some
mosses which will thrive on lime, though it discourages most kinds:
of course, I don't know which kind you've got.

When I was an anklebiter we moved into a house in Hornchurch, which is
on mildly alkaline soil, and the lawn had been a tennis court before the
war. The court markings were still delineated in lush green, even when
the rest of the grass was a 'orrid ochre colour. Even assuming the last
time it was lined-out was in 1939, and we moved in in 1950, that points
to the influence of whiting (ground chalk) in the soil lasting more than
ten years.

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