If you have been fertilizing your garden regularly for several years in a row, it’s possible your soil may need lime. Lime is a calcium-based soil amendment that farmers and gardeners use to raise ...

To give your plants a boost—whether you’re growing tomatoes or just want a nice, healthy lawn—you can easily add garden lime, a common soil amendment. You just have to be careful when you use lime, ...

I am trying to decide whether to add lime to my garden. What is the best pH range for soil for a vegetable garden? While there is a variation, the majority of vegetables grow best in soils with a ...

If you have highly acidic soil, some plants will suffer due to a lack of accessible nutrients. Fortunately, amending with garden lime is a straightforward way to adjust pH levels. Most plants prefer ...

If you keep treating moss every year and it keeps coming back, the problem almost certainly is not the moss. It is the pH of the topsoil underneath. Moss thrives in acidic, compacted, damp soil ...

Applying lime when lime is not needed may have disastrous results in your garden, landscape and lawn. Determining soil pH is important in gardening. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14, with 7 being ...

Generally, the effectiveness of lime is dependent on the particle size (left). Try using liquid lime for the fastest results (right). Photos: Dr Tan Ngai Paing Liming, the practice of adding lime to ...

To be a successful gardener, one needs to have a basic understanding of the soil which you are tending, as well the factors which affect the fertility, pH and quality of the soil. This is the case ...

The long-term weather forecast is calling for a continuing string of nice days through Thanksgiving Day. Many gardeners will be able to catch up on garden projects that they may have been putting off.