Mid-Atlantic Gardening: July Blooms, 0 by sallyg

sallyg wrote:
Ironite My friend used a lot of bone meal last year and had great results (better than me GRRR !!!!) and that got me really thinking about low calcium around here (coastal plain, sandy loam ) and I think I read that we tend that way. Since I have not used any mineral supplement for twenty years (I splurged on kelp meal once, if you even want to consider that mineral supp) I really think I should get one bag and give everything a little sprinkle at least.
This spring we decided to lime and found Mir A Cal by Jonathan Green, a high calcium quicker pH fix. One bag does 15,000SF versus a ton of bags of pelleted lime so the cost was reasonable. A few weeks after that went down, my pitiful struggling asparagus sent up a couple big new shoots. So I think we are on the right track.
Areas on the abandoned horse property behind us, that appeared to be stripped of soil or dug into at some time long past, just looked like wasteland, further making me wonder that our native rock is very poor in something essential.

Well we had some big storms yesterday pm and morerain overnight, I should go see how my South african foxgove is