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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Soil pH 5.0 -- with these minerals, no need to lime?
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 18:12:40 -0500


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








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