Lime for brassicas

[w33blegurl]

Hi all
Just wondered what time of year I should be liming the ground for next years brassicas? Is this an autumn job or should it be left to spring time?

Cheers!

[Snadger]

Lime is very fluid in the ground and washes out easily, so if I was adding it I would add it in the springtime. Depends what you're adding it for I suppose?

[Pumpkin Becki]

I think the idea is that you can sprinkle it over the brassica bed just prior to planting/sewing, and I also add a scattering to the planting hole itself.

[jackie j]

I was told if you sprinkle it over the cabbages it helps get rid of cabbage white's

[Pumpkin Becki]

I was told if you sprinkle it over the cabbages it helps get rid of cabbage white's

I hadn't heard that one?

I understand it is mainly used to prevent clubroot affecting brassic crops.

[Flummery]

I also understood it was a preventative for clubroot. I would have thought though, that if your soil is highly alkaline anyway, it wouldn't be necessary?

[w33blegurl]

Spring it is then...it was for the clubroot prevention - we don't have highly alkaline soil.

[Jillyreeves]

I haven't previously limed my soil so after reading this I have sprinkled wood ash around the base of my sprouts, hope I have done the right thing.