We haven’t really addressed the topic in a thorough fashion yet. It’s in our “master plan” of topics, of which there are well over a hundred topics, we just haven’t gotten there yet. We briefly touch on it in our soil building article, but not comprehensively and only in the context of newly built soil. I’ll try to bump the topic up in priority, but our primary content development cycle on the site here is over the winter…so don’t expect anything this season. (We’re just way too busy over summer to write long form, comprehensive content.)

Lime really only needs to be applied if and when you’re trying to pH correct a growing space. You can take multiple approaches, like correcting it in one big shift or over multiple seasons. We prefer the latter as it’s safer that way. That “sort of” leads to “annual” corrections, but once it’s in the zone (pH of 6.0 to 6.7), there’s usually not a need to continually correct it. Soil pH will drift over time, but once it’s corrected, it’s likely you only have to address it again every 3 to 5 years.