Hydrated Lime Powder
Keep houseflies, fruit flies, rats, cockroaches and prevent chicken and house pets from digging at compost piles. Sprinkle a fine layer on top of compost to help faster decomposition. Camping pit latrine in waste degradation and animal carcass disposal.
Adds much needed soluble calcium to strengthen cell walls of plants and to prevent blossom end rot in tomatoes and chilies. As a fungus and alphids control in foliar spray. Addition of 1 table spoon of hydrated lime to 1gallon of water. Note too strong a solution will burn leaves and roots.
Taxidermy in hair removal for leather tanning.
Sprinkle outside of the raised bed to prevent snails and slugs from eating up young shots. Also to garden compost with lots of miniature awl snails to kill and deter invasion. Add soluble calcium to compost.
As a lime white wash on masonry concrete blocks used as raised beds to deter snails. Eradicated moss and algae growth on pavements and drains.
Eradicates weeds and unwanted grass by watering with solution of 3 parts water to 1 part hydrated lime powder. Not to be used in worms bed as strong alkaline kills worms.
As a clay particles agglomeration to improve soil drainage preventing water logging. Immediately acidic soil is neutralized with hydrated lime powder mixes into soil.
Water treatment in particles sedimentation of raw water and pH adjustment.
Calcium Hydroxide Ca(OH)2 92.28%
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) 2.88%
Passing sieve 75 micron 92.49%
