Liming reduces fertilizer use

[remnant]

Plant roots secrete organic acids which accumulate in the soil resulting in soil with low pH which is not conducive for plant growth because it binds the mineral components in the soil reducing their bioavailability to plants. Liming the soil neutralizes these acids resulting in an optimised pH which increases accessibility to nutrients reducing fertilizer costs.

 

[Brandie]

Plant roots secrete organic acids which accumulate in the soil resulting in soil with low pH which is not conducive for plant growth because it binds the mineral components in the soil reducing their bioavailability to plants. Liming the soil neutralizes these acids resulting in an optimised pH which increases accessibility to nutrients reducing fertilizer costs.

What's liming?

 

[DrCase]

Every few years a get a bag of pelletized lime and spread it over my yard