Q: My boyfriend has already limed his soil and wonders if he should refrain from adding manure and/or garden soil to his tomato garden this year because he has heard of a gas problem created when lime ...

Unlike nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, you don’t apply lime for plants—you apply it to feed soil microorganisms. The microscopic creatures that are so important to healthy soil cannot ...

Liming is an important part of soil management. Alkaline ions, such as calcium and magnesium, are leached from the soil as a result of rainfall, including acidic rainfall. In time, most soils will ...