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lime for clay soil?

My Soil Is Mostly clay,I Was Told by My friend to Use Lime To Break It Up,,,What Can I Do To Make Sure My Garden Does It,s Best This Year,Last Year,I Just Planted My Seeds w/out Doing Anything To It,,It Didn,t do To Good,At First Everything Was Doing Quite Well,But In The middle of it All,Everything went To Pot,,My Green Peppers Only Had Little Buds On Them and Went No further,I Got Plenty Of Tomatoes Off Of 3 Plants and A Few Cucumbers Off Of 4 Plants,I NEED HELP,I,m Not The Best At It,But I Love Gardening,,PLEASE HELP ME!!! I Want To Plant,Green Peppers,Salad Onions,Tomatoes,mint and Okrah. Please Answer A.S.P,,Thank You

Answer:

I used to do analysis of things like milk.If you add the stong acid to milk the milk breaks down the fat rises to the top at once and you can easily measure the volume of milk fat.This figure is important to farmers and to cheese makers..Incidentally the human stomach uses hydrochloric acid to concentrate the milk'solids' I suppose that the acid would also act upon the calcium in milk,making calcium chloride;but honestly I dont know much about that side of things.Hope it helps.
vinegar i think is better also lemon juice has a higher ph than lime juice
NO, HcL is different and Lime juice is different. You are talking apples and oranges. HcL has chlorine in it while Lime juice has ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) in it.
yes because contains acd
limes contain citric acid. citric acid is a relatively weak polyprotic acid and that may give some weird results when you neutralize different solutions as one of the other answerers said, vinegar is the better choice. readily available. cheap. monoprotic.. etc

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