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"David \(in Normandy\)" writes:
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| Can I use quicklime to help break up clay soil?
| I meant to buy slaked lime but accidentally bought quicklime instead (I live
| in Normandy and haven't mastered all the French gardening words yet :-).

Well, yes, but watch out for that stuff! You REALLY don't want to breathe
any of it or get any near your eyes, and it will get very hot when any
dampness gets near it. You need it to get rained on or water it before
it blows around. I wouldn't handle it myself.

| Since nothing will be planted there again until next Spring can I apply lime
| now?

Yup.

| I also plan to ask a neighbouring farmer to see if he can supply a trailer
| or two of "merde" for the plot! Does anyone know if manure should be applied
| before or after liming or doesn't it matter?

It doesn't matter.

| PS - does anyone know how to spell "rotorvating" - my spellchecker doesn't
| know either?

Rotovate - it's a brand name, used as a common word, like Macintosh,
Hoover or Kleenex.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.