Gardening Methods

Can anyone tell me the benefits of lime on my garden and lawn? Do I use liquid lime or dry lime?

A guy told me to go liquid lime cuz it more pure and you dont need as much. he also said lime will get rid of many unwanted broadleaf weeds& creeping charlie in my lawn. Is that right? Good as chemicals?

Hi,

You use lime if you want to raise the PH of your soil (make it more alkaline). So you really only need it if you have very acidic soil. I find that gardens like acidic soil – blueberries, tomatoes, etc. While grass doesn’t. I wouldn’t add it to your garden without doing a test to see what the PH is and then looking up what the optimal PH is for whatever you want to plant there. I never heard of lime killing broadleaf weeds.

A good source of information is your county extension office (find it here: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/ ) or local universities (like this link: http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/turf/liming.htm ).

Good Luck

Key 1 Balance Soil ph With Lime