Lime for brassicas

**Snadger** · 01-10-2009, 11:34 AM

Lime is very fluid in the ground and washes out easily, so if I was adding it I would add it in the springtime.

Depends what you're adding it for I suppose?

**Pumpkin Becki** · 01-10-2009, 12:51 PM

I think the idea is that you can sprinkle it over the brassica bed just prior to planting/sewing, and I also add a scattering to the planting hole itself.

**jackie j** · 01-10-2009, 12:57 PM

I was told if you sprinkle it over the cabbages it helps get rid of cabbage white's

**Pumpkin Becki** · 01-10-2009, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by jackie j View Post

I was told if you sprinkle it over the cabbages it helps get rid of cabbage white's

I hadn't heard that one?

I understand it is mainly used to prevent clubroot affecting brassic crops.

**Flummery** · 01-10-2009, 02:45 PM

I also understood it was a preventative for clubroot. I would have thought though, that if your soil is highly alkaline anyway, it wouldn't be necessary?

**w33blegurl** · 01-10-2009, 03:56 PM

Spring it is then...it was for the clubroot prevention - we don't have highly alkaline soil.

**Jillyreeves** · 01-10-2009, 05:50 PM

I haven't previously limed my soil so after reading this I have sprinkled wood ash around the base of my sprouts, hope I have done the right thing.

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