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How To Raise Soil pH In The Lawn // Which Lime To Use & How Much

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I recently found out that my new lawn had highly acidic soil, so instead of just amending the soil I decided to also film a video about how I was raising the pH of my lawn and why I chose the products that I used over other common alternatives. In the end, I ended up using mostly garden lime over dolomitic lime but that's not the best option for everybody.
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@TurfMechanic 11 месяцев назад

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@BenjaminT.Minkler Год назад

there has been so much research into soil chemistry due to farming; however most of that gets so technical and 'dry', or just boring and over the top for home lawns - so it is great to see this knowledge and 'how to'/why presented in a way that relates to us keeping a healthy and great performing yard, with just enough depth into the mechanics to give basic workable understanding without drowning us ....well done video! thank you

@TurfMechanic Год назад

That is awesome feedback! Thanks Ben :D Hope to continue delivering like that for a long time to come.

@kkevinj1 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for teaching about lime so I wont buy the wrong kind and PH. I need a lil over 3 pallets of 50lb for 11,500 at PH of 3, I measured PH today after my probe came from Amazon. 3.0 totally explain why the grass got fungus so bad and weak in spots, I seeded Bermuda in the 105 heat during a drought and it almost all came in, cant believe how the new grass is growing so fast at 3.0. I had St Aug before the reno. Thanks

@cottydry 5 месяцев назад

Excellent in depth video on lime. My takeaway is that liming is probably more important than fertilization. My soil test came back with a PH of 5.5 and 138 PPM Magnesium. I just applied 50lbs/1K of pelletized garden lime. It sounds like I should do this annually. We have naturally acid soil here in the PNW.

@TurfMechanic 5 месяцев назад

I'm right there with you, I'll probably be liming fairly regularly for as long as I'm in this house.

@paulpugh2480 Год назад

Clear and concise,thanks for the info.

@JamesDean53333 Год назад

Great content! Glad you ‘geeked out’ on this one! 👍

@TurfMechanic Год назад

so glad a bunch of you all enjoyed the geek session! :) Thanks for the watch and comment James!

@jconn5865 Год назад

So I just got a soil test back. Calcium good, magnesium good, but my ph is a bit low coming in at a 5.02. Macros seem pretty solid with nitrogen being the lowest however the micros have a few concerns. Which lime would you use to bump the ph up a bit ? I also noticed that for whatever reason my Fe (iron) is off the charts at a 113 (7-11 normal) and sulfur says 1.8 with 7-16 being normal. Would any of these readings be concerning to you ? Over the next few years I’ll be careful not to add too many iron rich products to the lawn but I’m not sure how to take the iron levels down. This also makes it difficult because I feel most applications have a good amount of iron in them milorganite/ironite/ as well as the majority of nitrogen fertilizers. Thanks for the great content and look forward to your upcoming videos.

@allensadicario5196 5 месяцев назад

To rise the ph i use Jonathan green magic cal plus good stuff

@celworthy Год назад

Great info!

@TurfMechanic Год назад

You are welcome Craig! Thanks for the watch and comment!

@TurfandStem Год назад

Great information! My lawn struggles from a low PH, but I'm slowly making progress. I'm going to have to try a few of these.

@TurfMechanic Год назад

It's not too complicated once you know what to do and not all that expensive either; I'm sure you'll get it under control if you really want to adjust things. Good luck this coming season!

@BelowAverageSwardMan Год назад

Great info! Good luck, and thanks!

@TurfMechanic Год назад

You are very welcome Mark, glad you found it helpful and I hope you have a great end to your winter season!

@lovehumble9696 Год назад

hello... thank you for your video ... very well put together 🙏 ... is it safe to combine in equal parts the dolomite garden lime and the jobes garden lime ... ?)

@TurfMechanic Год назад

yeah, totally fine to combine them

@Los714 9 месяцев назад

Jobes organic lime is the lime you recommend for lawns?

@lovehumble9696 Год назад

ooh ... and is the limestone something that is a yearly application ... or spring and fall

@TurfMechanic Год назад

if you need to raise ph then it is usually applied a couple times throughout the year like spring/fall but if you don't need to raise ph very much you could probably only do it once...and of course if you have optimal or nigh ph to start with then you wouldn't need to apply this stuff at all.

@desmorider747 Год назад

@turf mechanic My ph came back as 5.1, and my magnesium is at 95ppm, sulfur is 50ppm. Recommendation is to add 80lbs/1000sq of lime. Is it safe to add dolomitic lime, or is my magnesium too high? Thanks

@bubba_lynn_crude Год назад

Love your videos Bryan. I live in the PNW, my soil pH is low (5.45!), Mg is low end of normal, Ca is a bit high. Should I just add dolomite and not worry about getting excess calcium?

@TurfMechanic Год назад

If it was me, I'd just drop the dolomite now and then wait a couple months and then switch over to calcitic lime unless you wanted to do another soil test to confirm.

@bubba_lynn_crude Год назад

@@TurfMechanic I heard that dolomite can take like a year or more to fully break down into soil. Should I be concerned about adding more lime until I've given the dolomite enough time to do it's thing?

@TurfMechanic Год назад

@@bubba_lynn_crude if particle size is large then it can take a long time but it's easy to find dolomite lime that can pass through fine sieves. So long as the majority passes through a 50 mesh sieve or smaller (this should be labeled on bags) then it won't take that long by a lot. I have a bag of dolomite from home depot in my garage right now that clearly states 88% of the dolomite will pass through a 60 mesh, that's good enough for me and if it was 100% you'd hardly tell the difference imo.

@bubba_lynn_crude Год назад

@@TurfMechanic Thank you! You da man.

@jibboom2112 6 месяцев назад

I've got super high Calcium and Magnesium, yet my PH is 5.5. what gives??

@fadetoblack51 Год назад

I’ve gotten out of limeing recently. I need to get back on it as my soil is heavy clay

@TurfMechanic Год назад

yep, low pH with heavy clay means more lime is probably necessary - saving grace however is that nutrients leech out of clay less dramatically; didn't touch on that in the video though. :)

@americantroy77 Год назад

My soil test reads good for all my levels but maybe 2 seasons ago 1 side of my front lawn basically stopped changing color when I fertilize. What do you think is happening when the lawn does not uptake fert?

@TurfMechanic Год назад

My first thought is it's a different grass type or variety that has a different base color...other than that maybe it's a watering issue (too much) or shade issue (too much)? consider those three things; if it's not one of those then I'd have to dive deeper.

@harperexplores9349 Год назад

So if I have high Magnesium and High Calcium at 5.3 PH? What do I use?

@kkevinj1 11 месяцев назад

um the one without mag

@NpgSymboL 9 месяцев назад

😂

@chadderstar6880 Год назад

So my soil test showed low sodium. Any thing in particular I should do about that? or no big deal...?

@TurfMechanic Год назад

Not a big deal, there is only a miniature benefit to salt-tollerant grass types for having a bit of extra Na in the soil. Not worth worrying about imo.

@chadderstar6880 Год назад

@Turf Mechanic Don't worry about it? I'm way ahead of you haha.