Applying Lime
- Thread starter Vizslaman
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- South Wales UK
2t plus possibly
- Location
- N.Lincs
@Cab-over Pete is your man.
Depends on what the neutralising value of the lime that's readily available round you.
It'd be between 2 and 3 tons/acre round here but as you've only 12 and a half acres to do, get a full load and calculate your rate per acre from that.
Depends on what the neutralising value of the lime that's readily available round you.
It'd be between 2 and 3 tons/acre round here but as you've only 12 and a half acres to do, get a full load and calculate your rate per acre from that.
- Location
- Northumberland
put 2 tonne acre on. retest after 12 months. Probably want another 2 tonnes
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
All good advice so far.
By the way, lime won’t actually kill reeds and rushes like some people think it does. Get those topped and sprayed off, then with a correct pH level the grass will compete better with the rushes.
By the way, lime won’t actually kill reeds and rushes like some people think it does. Get those topped and sprayed off, then with a correct pH level the grass will compete better with the rushes.
- Location
- N.Lincs
..........or make the wet bits drier - even though your local, friendly neighbourhood contractor will float effortlessly over them with his big fat tyres.....
- Location
- Ceredigion
Why is it wet ?
Take an artic load this year and another next year, at 28t each that’s ~2.25t/ac
Get the finest ground calcium lime you can find
Pistonbroke
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- Ceredigion
I would be sorting out the drainage before spending on lime
Pistonbroke
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People used to say that 2 ton / acre was the maximum in one dose and if it needs more do it in split dressing again in six months or so. What's your experience?
If you have high Magnesium soils then make sure you don't apply Mag lime. Top the rushes and spray them when they regrow in spring, if possible try and improve the drainage by mole ploughing or subsoiling. Rushes are an indicator of poor drainage, the low pH could be a result of this issue rather than the cause.
Rushes aren’t always an indicator of poor drainage systems, but they certainly can ruin the drainage capacity of the soil. With their matted roots they can soon start to hold water back in the upper profile of the soil, even when it is perfectly dry underneath, it’s just part of the reversion process in mild and wet parts of the country, where all ground basically wants to be moss and heather, as that is what is most suited to the climate, rushes are an enabling step in the journey towards that destination.
Generous calcium lime applications are the most effective in combating this, where drainage isn’t the problem, by making phosphate more available to grass/clover to help it complete, creating a more habitable environment for soil bacteria to break down plant residues and by the repulsive forces of its own ions against each other which opens the soil and helps it breathe/drain.
Generous calcium lime applications are the most effective in combating this, where drainage isn’t the problem, by making phosphate more available to grass/clover to help it complete, creating a more habitable environment for soil bacteria to break down plant residues and by the repulsive forces of its own ions against each other which opens the soil and helps it breathe/drain.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
That’s a good approach, but can be tricky when you have a small acreage against full lorries delivered.
Sometimes you can’t get things perfect and can only do your best.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
..........or make the wet bits drier - even though your local, friendly neighbourhood contractor will float effortlessly over them with his big fat tyres.....
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Both.
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- Ceredigion
OK, then I plough it then I put the lime on
But I would not put lime on a rushy bog and expect it to improve
But it's also dangerous to read between the lines .but rushy and wet it closer to bog than dry
- Location
- Limousin, France
My fields are not drained but I cut twice and Erth twice a year.2 yrs into the system and have removed 80/ 85% of the rushes or jonc (that's what the french call it). Late summer pass does the most killing.
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
The thing they like best is being left alone. Any kind of disruption to them will see a reduction.