karmahappytoes said:Oh so your soil is like ours out here, I go to the feed store and get golf course lime in pellet form and
hand toss in the garden beds and use the drop spreader for the lawn. What fun!!
I thought lime was for soils that were too acid-- pH too LOW (significantly less than 7). Our problem is the opposite -- pH too HIGH (significantly more than 7). I grew up in Jasper County, Illinois, and the older farmers told me about the old days when much of the area was almost useless for row crops because the soil was too acidic, so they grew a grass called redtop for hay-- redtop could stand the sour soils. At some point before I was born they started bringing in lime by the railroad car load to sweeten the soil. Then the redtop went away and was replaced by corn, wheat, and soybeans. Farmers there still have to apply lime to the fields every few years. (I don't remember exactly how often.)
Acid soils tend to be associated with high rainfall areas, alkali soils with low rainfall areas.
