{"id":631,"date":"2021-11-05T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/?p=631"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:40:44","slug":"raising-the-soil-ph-on-the-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/raising-the-soil-ph-on-the-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the soil ph on the lawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/11\/calcifert-lime-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/11\/calcifert-lime-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/11\/calcifert-lime-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/11\/calcifert-lime-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/11\/calcifert-lime-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/11\/calcifert-lime-1-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With your lawn the soil test showed your soil pH on the lawn is pH 5.9 which is slightly acid. This has likely been caused over a number if years by the application of high nitrate fertilizer which have lowered the soil pH to a level at which the moss thrives and the grass plants are struggling to access the nutrients in the soil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the finer grasses which make up a finer lawn are traditionally grown in a slightly acidic soil your soil pH on the lawn is too low and application of a handful of lime per square metre will raise the soil pH enough to help the grass compete with the moss and reduce the amount of moss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We link below is a lime safe to use with animal and dogs etc once applied and watered in if it does not rain in a couple of days it will be safe for the dog to use the lawn <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progreen.co.uk\/calcium-calcifert-lime-granules-25kg-reduces-soil-acidity-ideal-for-horse-pony-paddocks\/\">https:\/\/www.progreen.co.uk\/calcium-calcifert-lime-granules-25kg-reduces-soil-acidity-ideal-for-horse-pony-paddocks\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With your lawn the soil test showed your soil pH on the lawn is pH 5.9 which is slightly acid. This has likely been caused over a number if years by the application of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-gardening-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/lynnandfrederick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}