Testing your soil is a vital part to having a successful garden. In today’s episode I will be walking you through 3 different ways to test your soil to increase growth and plant health.
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I was just talking about testing my soil the other day and now this video pops up 😂 I’m such a nerd because I am SO EXCITED about this episode!
Watching this at work😂
Thanks Luke! I have been waiting to fix the mess of soil I had brought in last year.. I new I needed to amend so this is what I needed. Thank you. My soil is hard and clay colored .. last time this happened I put on peat and it helped tremendously.
I'm going to try the tests because I have dirt and my plants aren't doing very well. Then I will need to see how to amend it the best. Thank you for the tips!
I'm 65 years old, and when I was a little girl, my daddy's older brother farmed in South Carolina. I remember seeing him, actually took a tiny taste of his soil. Just a touch on the tip of his tongue.
Ordered some produce seeds today. Excited for my first purchase with you. New sub for just a couple weeks now and loving the content!!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the red cabbage PH test.
Likes to see your channel very informative 👍 just compared to our Indian nature ❤
My soil smells like mushroom compost
Interesting, never heard the difference with organic material. I assumed was the silt-loam layer of the triangle. Makes sense though. Never seen the ribbon test either. Great episode and thanks for sharing as usual!
Clayey actually is the correct term
So what happens when you have no clay…I e raised beds filled with compost and organic matters?
I live near the west coast of central Florida, next to a low-lying area, where a marshy creek overflows my side yard with lots of organic silt at times, and the developers put down a clay mix first for the property's foundation, then sand on top with added topsoil for the yards, I'm so confused as to why some things grow well — and some don't — all depending where I'm standing (either in my front, back, or either side yard), I now understand why and what to do about it!! Mystery solved!! THANKS!! (Even though the video about broke my brain…lol)
ps…. When will you be replenishing your seed stock?? It appears you've sold out of just about everything!! (that's a good thing ;-))
This was very helpful thank you
OK, I'm looking at the pyramid, and there is no way to reach Loam as I read it. Any of the points in the Loam region are more than 100% total.
Can you explain?
Thank you! So helpful
18:56 This was definitely click-bait. How about a video on free, at-home soil tests for gardens with generous amounts of compost? Is there a balance of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, et al? That would be fire. 👍🏾
Great information! Thank you
Make sure to not get soil with herbicides in it! 💔❤️🩹
This was an incredibly informative video, thank you so much!!
Great video! I have depleted mostly clay soil. I have been wondering what I can do to get it to drain and fortify it so that it will produce good yields. I can get my hands on plenty of rabbit manure. That's the way I'm going to go just like my grandfather. He put worms in a rabbit manure catchment bin and used that material to ammend the same soul. His tomatoes were as big as small cantaloupes. Keep up the good work!
Love your videos
Never bothered with soil tests once in over 40 years of gardening. I just make sure I add compost in the autumn and another feed in early spring, end of. Unless you are a commercial grower, it is a total waste of time and effort.
Going no-dig seems a way. Just add 6 inches of compost as a top layer and because you loose 1 inch of level in a year, just add 1 inch of fresh compost every year. I wonder how the fertility evolves during 6 years. It seems to me that the NPK levels should change to some degree after 6 years and affect the fertility. Any ideas?