posted 15 years ago
One option would be to use less Ringers, and mix your lime with seedmeal (intended as animal feed) and maybe bloodmeal. I've read that the mix of powders is easier to spread evenly than pure lime, which helps avoid burning some spots.
Also, my understanding is that you want them to all go down at approximately the same time, since they work together to support soil life. The worms can have their steak, then their Tums, then some more steak...
"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.