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In today’s video we perform soil tests on the three soil types in our raised bed gardens. We test for nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, and pH using a Luster Leaf 1601 Rapitest Soil Test Kit.
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27 Comments
Interesting results… Now you know that you have to amend the soil for whatever you want to plant. Would you guys and your kids be interested in raising rabbits? I understand they are fun, provide meat and excellent cold manure that you can use right away in your garden – even in the whole where you place your transplants…. Small homesteads usually raise them as a complement to their chickens, goats, ducks….
I'd add azomite…you could plant blueberries 🫐 in the woods…they like acidic soil
May the Lord bless and protect you and your family
Interesting tests.
Never done a soil test and I've been gardening for over 50 yrs., for a basic bed I add manure every other year in the autumn/winter, here’s how to do it, add a good helping 6 inches or more of well-rotted manure to each bed, do this, by first taking out a 2-3 ft section by 1-2 ft deep of the soil out onto some plastic sheeting/tarpaulin, then add the manure to the bed, then turn the next soil section in the bed from behind you on top of the manure, adding a layer of blood, fish and bone organic fertilizer for good measure in between as well, for the last row of manure use the soil you put to one side, on the sheeting, just leave it rough to overwinter, come the spring using a fork turn it over and rake it down to a fine tilth ready for planting, from then on if the plants need any more help then I use a balanced granule powder fertilizer with one of those mixer bottles and hose, works every time for me, trying to be too technical with all this testing thingy, nah! Not for me, mother nature has never used a testing kit, but because you have just made your beds it's probably going to be best to just use a balanced feed with mixer bottle and hose like above for this season, but come the autumn/winter do your prep for next year, turn it over, leave it rough for the frosts to get at it.
Thank you Sam! Very interesting about the bag soil! Hello to your family!
I would like to see what the tests results would be if you added fish to the soil. I know that back even to Jesus' time they put fish in the gardens as fertilizer.
Grow your tomatoes in the dirt from the woods in East Tennessee we grow the best tomatoes because of the acidic soil
I gave up on raised beds after several years. The best gardens I ever had was when a local mint farmer gave us a couple loads of mint compost after they had cooked the mint for oil. We put about 6 to 8 inches of mint compost on the garden areas, rototilled it in to our soil and goodness, we had huge yields of everything. Tomato plants 8' x 8', cucumbers we couldn't keep up with, crazy carrots, beets, corn with 3 to 4 ears on them, sometimes 5! Green beans, peppers with 10 on each plant or more, it was unbelievable. We put the mint compost around our house plants and trees and the trees would put 3 ft on a year! The stuff was crazy! 25 lb watermelons, huge cantaloupes, winter and summer squash I had to beg people to take! It was like everything was on steroids! Problem is, not every area can get mint compost like we did. I think I've seen it recently bagged at the big box stores. So maybe some areas can get it.
It looks like 3 cups of some baaad coffee!
Before I get to the part that tells us which soil is best I’m going to say the woods soil is best.
I never thought to test bag soil, I assumed it would have the correct nutrients 🤔
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I got lost with your testing. Other words your soil is bad. I seen making my homemade compost for two years. Using this season! I am not an gardener.
Wait your not a soillogist!!! 😮😂
My husband added horse manure to his garden about 2 weeks before he planted everything is coming up beautifully, sweet corn is now 3ft. high planted in March.
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Sam, I am not an educated fellow, but I think you may have been Horn swoggled your test kit is not what it proffesses to be 😂
The commercial stuff is basically neutral so you can use it for anything you want to grow. Depending on what you're growing, you're going to need to use different ratios of nitrogen & phosphorus. It's better to have neutral pH as well. Much easier for you to keep as is or make it acidic or alkaline depending on what you're going to grow. It makes perfect sense but unfortunately, Joe Average gardener isn't told that they should be adding nutrients. Like you they assume that it's perfect for growing things. But you need more nitrogen in the soil for green things and more phosphorous for blooming things. You'll add the appropriate fertilizer components based on what your soil has naturally, so when you're using bagged or bulk soil, if it's neutral or deficient/depleted you add the nitrogen or phosphorous you need for your plants. That's easier than having something say high in nitrogen but low in phosphorous that you need to make high in phosphorous because then you need to figure out how much of something you need to add based on what's already there. Harder than when there's nothing already there.
Gee, can you get your money back on the soil you bought? Sounds like it’s so poor you couldn’t raise h*** on it!
Interesting! Not what I would have guessed! Thanks Sam!
Year old Chicken manure is the secret to my veggie gardens ! Beef steak Tomatoes the size of cantaloupes! Mix it in in the fall . But I would have mixed all 3soils together as equally as possible in all the tubs then test and then add whats missing per what each veggie or plant needs. What ever you do make a Pile of all your chicken waste this summer and spread it equally in each tub in the fall and mix it in even though its not a year old yet this first season of the garden .
You 'll get there! Is there an Ag Extension office close? They should be a good resource.
Great video.
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Why are your veggie bins so deep? Is that for convenience?
that was very interesting…hope you find all the info you need.