Is Lime Good For A Vegetable Garden / It's time to start your vegetable garden - Olmsted's Nursery / Lime is strictly defined as a white caustic alkaline substance—quicklime;
Is Lime Good For A Vegetable Garden / It's time to start your vegetable garden - Olmsted's Nursery / Lime is strictly defined as a white caustic alkaline substance—quicklime; . Best soil for a raised bed vegetable garden. It contains 11 strains of endo and ecto mycorrhizae (good fungi) and the key to the best soil in a raised bed vegetable garden is to remember that you always want to feed the soil and not the plants. A good regime to follow is to manure beds that will grow potatoes and other root crops in the autumn, and lime beds in the spring that are going to be growing brassicas. Well, yes, except you can have too much of a good thing, and you do need to speaking of liming, because ashes are alkaline, it is possible to substitute them for the usual ground root vegetables such as carrots, parsnips, peas and beans (pods are a better weight and colour). It's standard procedure for best gardening practices to add lime during the winter months, especially for your an...