{"id":47568,"date":"2024-07-15T20:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47568"},"modified":"2024-07-15T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:06:08","slug":"yard-work-the-lime-sourcing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-the-lime-sourcing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work: the lime sourcing game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about yard supplies: the tutor mentions a game he plays every year.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLime, which I think of as crushed limestone, is useful for elevating the pH of soil. I first saw my father use it back in the Annapolis Valley. In places I&#8217;ve lived, including where I live now, the lawn seems to need it. <\/p>\n<p>\nTherefore, every year, I have to buy some lime. It&#8217;s not necessarily expensive, but one can pay quite a range of prices for it. This year, I&#8217;ve seen it offered from 40 cents to 5 dollars per kg (prices rounded).<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen I find lime at a good deal, it&#8217;s unpredictable. I never know which store will offer the deal, nor when. People might say to look online, but my experience is that sometimes what it says online doesn&#8217;t necessarily translate to reality. Therefore, starting in May, I keep lookout for lime at a good price while out and about.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe best deal I got on lime was two years ago, at a grocery store: 20 cents per kg. Years when I don&#8217;t find a deal it seems to cost me around 60 to 70 cents per kg. This year, I thought I&#8217;d missed the window, but last week I found it at 40 cents per kg.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about yard supplies: the tutor mentions a game he plays every year. Lime, which I think of as crushed limestone, is useful for elevating the pH of soil. I first saw my father use it back in the Annapolis &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-the-lime-sourcing-game\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yard work: the lime sourcing game<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2913],"tags":[3248],"class_list":["post-47568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-price-of-lime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47568"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47579,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47568\/revisions\/47579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}