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Lime, or crushed limestone, is a completely natural addition to your lawn maintenance and actually is a treatment for your soil.
Soil can be either neutral, alkaline or acidic – each type determines the level of nutrients that plants can receive from it. The chemistry of your soil changes throughout the year. Rainfall, the breakdown of nutrients, and the decomposition of natural materials such as grass clippings are all factors. These natural processes tend to make the soil more acidic.
Different plants need different kinds of soil chemistries but the grasses that make up your lawn favor a neutral pH in order to thrive. Liming conditions the soil, raising the pH level and bringing it back to the neutral state that healthy turf prefers to increase growth.
On the Connecticut shoreline, liming is generally done in the spring and fall. W.J.A. Property Maintenance will test your soil’s pH levels to see whether an application of lime is necessary and the concentration level that is needed for your specific soil conditions.
Contact W.J.A. Property Maintenance for a soil test and liming estimate.
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