07-08-2008, 01:37 PM
Hi Still:
I'm in the process of reading a book called Square Foot Gardening which JayJay recommended on the "tomatoes" thread. (Kudos JayJay - Excellent book).
In that book the author espouses using much smaller areas for gardens with the claim that you can achieve as good or an even better harvest than the traditional huge garden. So to answer your question it wouldn't be necessary to correct the PH of an 80' x 40' piece of ground which would be a huge job and need a lot of material. Correcting the PH for a garden the size of what the book recommends is not that big a deal and wouldn't require a huge amount of material.
If you soil is acid then it needs lime. If it is alkaline it needs sulfur. Most plants grow well with a neutral PH of between 6 and 7.
Andrew
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I'm in the process of reading a book called Square Foot Gardening which JayJay recommended on the "tomatoes" thread. (Kudos JayJay - Excellent book).
In that book the author espouses using much smaller areas for gardens with the claim that you can achieve as good or an even better harvest than the traditional huge garden. So to answer your question it wouldn't be necessary to correct the PH of an 80' x 40' piece of ground which would be a huge job and need a lot of material. Correcting the PH for a garden the size of what the book recommends is not that big a deal and wouldn't require a huge amount of material.
If you soil is acid then it needs lime. If it is alkaline it needs sulfur. Most plants grow well with a neutral PH of between 6 and 7.
Andrew
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DiveHilo Dive Club Website:
http://www.divehilo.com/
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