By Joates
United Kingdom 
the garden of my new house has been covered with limestone chipping,could i dig these into the soil underneath and have a viable medium for plants and veg.the chipping are approx 2inch deep.
thanks
15 Feb, 2012
Answers
That is a lot of chippings I think you would be better to remove them and use elsewhere. Digging them in is going to limit what you can grow.
16 Feb, 2012
Rake 'em off into a pile - doesn't matter if a few have got into the soil, but that's far too many chippings to be just dug in. If there's a membrane beneath, rake off the top layer and then remove the membrane, complete with any chippings left on top.
16 Feb, 2012
Another thought - wouldn't incorporating a lot of limestone chippings make the soil rather alkaline for most veg and inhospitable for rhododendrons, azaleas, pieris, callunas etc?
16 Feb, 2012
Yup I would have thought so
16 Feb, 2012
Has it been laid on a weed suppressing membrane?
16 Feb, 2012