Richgro Dolomite Lime
Lime, with the magnesium in it.
Richgro Dolomite Lime is a 10kg bag that reduces soil acidity and raises pH while delivering a natural magnesium boost. The bag lists increased fruit yield, which is why it turns up around citrus and tomatoes more than anywhere else in a garden.
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Richgro Dolomite Lime details
Richgro Dolomite Lime at a glance
- Product type
- Dolomite lime, pH corrector
- Brand
- Richgro
- Pack
- 10kg
- Does
- Reduces soil acidity, raises pH
- Adds
- Calcium and magnesium
- The bag says
- Increases fruit yield
What Richgro Dolomite Lime suits
What can you use Richgro Dolomite Lime for?
Citrus and fruit trees
The classic use, and the reason the bag has oranges on it. Citrus are heavy magnesium users.
Tomatoes and heavy feeders
Anything cropping hard pulls magnesium out fast, and sandy soil does not replace it.
Yellowing between the leaf veins
On older leaves, veins staying green. That pattern is magnesium, not nitrogen, and feeding harder will not fix it.
Sandy Perth soil generally
Magnesium leaches through sand as readily as everything else does.
How much dolomite lime?
Test first, then spread thinly
Rate depends on how acid the soil is and what you are growing, which is why the honest answer starts with a pH test rather than a table.
Lime is spread far more thinly than compost or manure. If you are about to empty a bag around one tree, stop and check.
| Situation | Roughly | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| You have not tested | Nothing yet | Test. A kit is a few dollars and it decides whether you need lime at all. |
| A citrus or fruit tree | A light even scatter | Out to the drip line, not against the trunk. Water it in. |
| A vegetable bed before planting | A light even scatter | Work it through the top of the bed rather than spreading around plants already in. |
| Soil already alkaline | None | Wrong product. Liming here makes the problem worse. |
Lime is dusty and it is an irritant. Gloves, eye protection and a mask, and spread it on a still day. Bring a pH reading to the counter and we will talk the rate through with you.
Richgro Dolomite Lime in Perth
Magnesium on Perth sand
Sandy soils drain fast, and magnesium leaves with the water. Citrus and fruit trees in Perth back gardens are among the most common cases of it running short.
The visual tell is worth learning: yellowing between the veins of the OLDER leaves, with the veins themselves still green. Yellowing on new growth is a different problem and dolomite is not the answer to it.
Why Richgro Dolomite Lime
Why choose Richgro Dolomite Lime?
Two jobs in one bag
The pH correction and the magnesium together, rather than liming and then feeding magnesium separately.
The bag claims fruit yield
Increases fruit yield, printed on the pack. That is the manufacturer's claim, and it is consistent with what magnesium does.
Calcium as well
Dolomite is a calcium magnesium carbonate, so you are not choosing between the two elements.
A 10kg bag goes a long way
Spread thinly, like any lime. Most home gardens are a bag rather than a pallet.
Getting Richgro Dolomite Lime home
How to get Richgro Dolomite Lime
Collect from the yard
Open seven days at 222 Barrington St, Bibra Lake. The loader puts it straight into your trailer or ute, and someone will tell you whether what you have brought will carry the load.
Borrow one of our trailers free for two hours to get your load home. No charge, no bond.
Have it delivered
Across Perth's southern suburbs, seven days. For a quote we need the address, how much you need, and anything awkward about access — tight driveways, low branches and side access all change which truck we send. Confirm the current cost when you order.
Formats
- 10kg bags
Using Richgro Dolomite Lime
How to use Richgro Dolomite Lime
Test the pH first
A cheap kit costs a few dollars. Liming a soil that is already alkaline makes things worse, and you cannot tell by looking.
Spread it thinly and evenly
Out to the drip line around a tree rather than heaped against the trunk. An even scatter across a bed, not a pile.
Work it in and water it
Rake it through the surface and water it down. Lime sitting dry on top does almost nothing.
Give it weeks
It moves pH slowly. Retest before you decide it did nothing and add more.
When to choose something else
When it is the wrong product
- It is not a fertiliser. It corrects pH and supplies two elements; it does not replace feeding.
- Do not lime without testing. On an already alkaline soil this makes the problem worse, not better.
- If magnesium is already adequate, plain garden lime is the better choice. More magnesium is not automatically an improvement.
- Lime is dusty and it is an irritant to eyes, skin and lungs. Gloves, eye protection and a mask, and spread it on a still day.
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Goes with Richgro Dolomite Lime
Other products you may need
If magnesium is not the problem
The same pH job without the extra magnesium.
The other half of a sandy soil fix
pH is one problem. Water and structure are the others.
For the fruit trees themselves
Feeding, once the pH is where it should be.
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Need Richgro Dolomite Lime for your project?
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