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Old 01-02-2007, 09:51 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Liming for Brassicas

Neil Tonks wrote:
Doing it now will be fine. The idea of liming early is to give the
rain time to wash the lime in, which helps it break up heavy soils.
Provided you dig the ground over just before planting (which we all
do anyway), this will incorporate the lime and things will be fine.

Neil.





The guy is in Lancashire - rain is not a problem!

There was a major Munitions factory at Warrington in WW2, reason it was
built there? the area in the country with the highest number of days cloud
cover!

p - Lancastrian in London - k