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On Jan 9, 2017, at 10:58 AM, Steven Covacci wrote:

>  if I incorporate lime
> into the planting hole for each individual tree (in addition to applying
> some overall tot he surface), won't what I added to the hole eventually get
> used up, so that this is only a temporary benefit.  

Presuming that lime applied to the surface works its way down through the 
soil, though very slowly, if enough is applied so that it's not all 
neutralized right near the surface: the idea is that the lime incorporated at 
planting provides benefit through the root zone to start with, and then as 
its effects wane they're replaced by surface applications which have worked 
their way down. Later surface applications every few years as per soil test 
replace the first one, and so on.




-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale