Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: GOLDINGSBOY on January 07, 2012, 21:00
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I have just cleared a new stretch of ground to grow my vegetables upon. Then I spread lime upon it at the rate of 4oz. per sq. yd. The old gardening book that I consulted informs me that I must not fertilize at the same time, but signally fails to instruct me as to when that should be done. Presumably, I can proceed with planting in the spring and the plants will access whatever nutrients the soil already contains naturally. So, is that when I enrich the soil, immediately after I have harvested the various crops - sometime in th autumn?
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If you have put the lime on now it should be well washed in by the spring. Rake in your fertiliser a couple of weeks before planting out and you will be okay.
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Did the ground actually need liming?
When I started my present plot from scratch five years ago I found that the soil had a pH of about 7.5+ which is a little too alkaline for some crops. If I'd limed it I would have had problems growing some things successfully.
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As above. Liming is not something you do as a matter of course.
Too alkaline soil, encourages common scab in potatoes, for instance.