If I were to move my strawberries out front, it is VERY acidic there. So, I'd have to bring in dirt/ how deep would I need to make it so it isn't effected by the acidity?
Reason for moving them is because my raspberry plants are thriving back there, and they're starting to spread. which I love! And the strawberries were planted too wide and I want to plant them in narrower beds.
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when I put in the raspberries in that area, I put them in and they did horribly. so then I dug them up 2 years later and put a layer of garden soil/compost mix. about 6 inches. It didn't help it didn't compact down to about 4 inches. I figured it would be ok because they are shallow roots, but nope I havent' been good at removing the pine needles though it is sort of hard to do with prickly plants.
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or just saturate the area with pelletized limestone.
it doesn't "do" anything - basically if conditions are "acid" the limestone "reacts" - if there's no acid, it sits there looking particularly pretty, but does not "make things alkaline" as would more active forms of "lime"
ps: do NOT dump cement into your soil as you may read in other messages.
it doesn't "do" anything - basically if conditions are "acid" the limestone "reacts" - if there's no acid, it sits there looking particularly pretty, but does not "make things alkaline" as would more active forms of "lime"
ps: do NOT dump cement into your soil as you may read in other messages.
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Put at least 20% compost in the soil mix. Compost will help to buffer the pH of the soil and add dolomite lime to adjust pH upward. Strawberries like acidic condition pH 5.8-6.2. It will take a while for the pH to change, about 6 months on average so adding compost would be the best immediate solution and of course cleaning up the needles.
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So glad I found this topic as I have strawberries in a "planter" and I am wondering whether they are in a good position. The trouble being that they have lots of really good leaves and and look really well but the crop is quite sparse.
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