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Lime and Fertilizer

16 years ago

I tilled my vegetable garden 3 weeks ago and broadcasted 10-10-10 fertilizer. Now that the garden is planted, i decided to do a soil test for the first time and have found that the area where my string beans and lima beans are need lime. Can I add lime now? I keep finding conflicting reports..some say i can some say i can't add it at the same time as fertilizer. HELP!!!

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digdirt2
16 years ago
You could add it if you wanted too but since lime takes 60-90 days to have any effect on the pH anyway I wouldn't bother. That is why it is recommended that you not do both at the same time - it wastes fertilizer and it waste the lime when not added far enough in advance to have effect. It is normally a fall amendment.

Legumes are far more tolerant of imperfect soil than most things so I;d just leave things as is till fall.

Dave
jcrowder
Original Author
16 years ago
Is there anything other than Lime that you would recommend that would help?

THanks so much for your time!
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