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Should i have limed my pea/bean bed in autumn? Can i do it now?

WishIWasAWalton wrote:Should i have limed my pea/bean bed in autumn? Can i do it now?

Hello

On my allotment I have clubroot,and because I use lots of free stable manure,this does not help the acidity.

I grow dwarf and climbing French beans, with out adding lime to their soil!

Don't know about your French beans,but when I plant any brassicas I spread a half yogurt carton of neat lime in and around the planting hole.
Result almost never no clubroot, and it never affects the brassica plants.

I used to spread two 25kgs bags of lime over the parts that was not growing potatoes in, before reading somewhere that "they" only put lime where it was needed.
Now I only use a small amount of lime each season.

Cheers!

Hi WishIWasAWalton,
I think your best way out is to add some Calcified Seaweed to the planting hole as you plant out. This is assuming you are pot raising the plants. If you intend to seed direct add some Calcified Seaweed over the top of your planting in a strip about a foot wide. You do not need masses just a sprinkle.
JB.

I am pot raising, so i'll purchase some calcified seaweed. Thanks.

Goodnight Johnboy.

(Sorry, it had to be said, didn't it)