Is it too late now to lime on my acid soil (for brassicas). I'm in
Lancashire, so I probably won't be planting until late March.

Thanks.

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.

"Mel" wrote in message
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Is it too late now to lime on my acid soil (for brassicas). I'm in
Lancashire, so I probably won't be planting until late March.

Thanks.

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

"p.k."wrote .
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.

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

Ain't that the truth. Last year, when all that was on the news was the
drought and hosepipe ban and Monty Don rabbiting on about saving water and
drought-resistant plants, it was chucking it down relentlessly up here and
my allotment was drowning in a quagmire of mud. Mind you, it did warm up a
bit for a few weeks so it wasn't all bad! Right now, my allotment is one
big puddle.