Will this improve PH

[poppysfarm]

So we just finished our second year of gardening and need to improve the soil. Our crops produced enough to keep us through the summer but not enough to store away very much. My soil tests show PH between 5.5 and 6.3 and my soil is clay with good topsoil added as I can get it. I hill and raise beds because of drainage issues. So can I add lime and compost and fresh manure at the same time? Somewhere I read that you shouldn't fertilize and lime because they cancel eachother out - so is compost and fresh manure the fertilze part of the equation? We are organic.

I am planting garlic and Martins onions now too. Is there anything I can do to these beds as I plant to raise the PH? I have mixed compost in but can I lime the garlic/onion beds? Thanks for the help!

[Paquebot]

Lime and fresh manure certainly can't cancel each other since both are pH 8.0 and up. Most compost mixes are around 7.0. Lime is not needed in this case since garlic does best in the 5.0 to 6.0 range.

Martin

[Callieslamb]

I add lime in the fall so it had time to react in the soil. I fertilized int eh spring usually. If I had a good quantity of manaure in the fall, I don't see any harm in tilling it in the soil.

[frankva]

That "don't lime and fertilize" mindset can come from using non organic store bought fertilizer made with ?urea? One of the formulations is a no no. Fuzzy on which.