Today I’m joined by soil consultant Brian Maisenbacer (@earthgrower7741) to go over my field soil test. We’ll explain the different types of tests like saturated paste, how to utilize all sorts of farming knowledge to interpret theses tests, recommend natural farming amendments, and get into extremely nerdy soil talk.
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Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
2:08 Understanding a Soil Report
7:41 Applying Knowledge of Land to Test
9:09 Explaining Mag/Cal/Pot
11:15 Trace Minerals
13:53 What is a Salt?
16:15 Discussing Soil Science History and Biology
18:52 Why Soil Tests will Save You $
21:12 Understanding Saturated Paste Test
29:39 Microbial Analysis
37:30 Combining Eastern and Western Science
40:30 Ciliates, flagelletes, and other good guys
44:01 Applying the Patterns of Nature for Understanding
48:06 Qualitative Assessment
52:43 Why I’m Doing Soil Testing
53:49 The Combined Report & Recommendations
1:03:24 3 Ways to Re-mineralize soil
1:06:04 Input Recommendations
1:20:10 Observing Plants to Influence Soil Test
1:28:11 More Types of Testing
1:30:50 Why Show this Evidence?
1:32:55 How to Contact Brian (Earth Grower)
15 Comments
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I had my soil tested. So cool to see the results and how to fix the garden for this coming year
Always love the content. Still building my homestead, I’m in what’s called the sand hills and it’s beach sand. Still haven’t been very successful collecting imo not giving up though.
Next level teaching 💚
What gets me confused is listening. How about they put a range of what is good off to the right on the test. Then tell us what is a good way of adding either by manure of some type of amendments and possible say like how many pounds 100 square foot 10'x10' area…I will rewatch this video I just thought I would say something of why I don't get it!
Thank you for this deep dive into soil composition/health…very interesting and helpful.
Bro if you were yoked up you would be a terrifying food grower
That guy is really hot.
I truly hope this is helpful for everyone who watch’s it.
Everyone Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any questions about your soil of if you’d like help with soil testing.
My links are in the show notes.
Thanks for putting this together for us Steven!
I work in agronomy and have done many soil tests ( quite a few today even!) and meet with growers. All I can say is soil testing is huge! Without it you are growing blind and won't truly know where your soil is deficient. One commonly overlooked aspect that I'm glad was mentioned is Calcium to magnesium ratio. If your base saturation percentages are out of whack even if you have rich soil the plants will suffer.
You and Bruce of RED gardens are two of the best sources of information in organic farming. Thank you.
Test the plant, not the soil. Just sayin.
Investing appropriately today can save you a whole lot of stress in the nearest future 🛍️
So many gems! Thank you guys 💚🙏🏽