Granulated garden and lawn lime, 10 kg, Baltic Agro

• Type: granulated ground chalk (liming material)
• Producer: Baltic Agro
• Pack: 10 kg
• Purpose: reducing soil and lawn acidity, correcting calcium deficiency
• Rate when establishing: 25 kg ≈ 250 m²
• Rate thereafter: 25 kg ≈ 500 m² a year
• Target pH: 5.5–7 for most crops
• When: spring or autumn; on a lawn at the start or end of the season
• How: spread evenly; work into the soil in beds, leave on the surface and water on a lawn
• Storage: dry, in a closed pack

Measure before you lime. The rate depends on your soil's acidity and texture, not on a hunch. A simple pH test from a garden centre costs little and prevents over-liming, which is far harder to undo than acid soil.

Who wants lime. Cabbages and other brassicas, peas and beans, onions, beetroot, lawns, stone fruit and apples, most perennials — they all want pH 6–7.

Who must NOT be limed. Blueberry, lingonberry, cranberry, rhododendron, azalea, heather, hydrangea (the blue ones!) and conifers want acid soil. Never lime under them — a blue hydrangea turns pink after lime.

When. In spring before planting or in autumn after harvest. Do not apply lime together with manure or a nitrogen feed: the nitrogen escapes as ammonia and is lost. Leave at least two weeks between them.

On a lawn. Lime does not kill moss itself, but it removes the acidity moss depends on. Spread in spring or autumn and water in — the granules dissolve and settle into the soil.

How often. Once every 3–4 years is enough unless a soil test says otherwise. Liming every year pushes the pH too high, and then plants can no longer take up iron and manganese.