dntevnkno:

Adding your Earth Juice fertilizers would not hurt anything, since they are low in all their components, but if the plants are already setting berries, it may be a little late. If you have good, normal Northern Illinois soil, your berries may need little or no fertilizer.

If you have alkaline soil (high Ph), you would not want to add lime, which would raise the Ph further. Your soil should be ok for strawberries as it is, since strawberries are fairly tolerant of Ph variations.

Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

Thanks a lot for the advice. I'll probably feed once with a mild EJ solution and maybe a couple times with the carbohydrate booster alone. By the way wouldn't lime added in the correct amounts keep the PH at pretty much neutral whether it's acidic or alkaline? That's always been my understanding but maybe I'm off. Thanks again.