Testing Your Soil
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Article by: Michael Russell Most plants , Cold Frame Greenhouse - Maximize The Natural Warmth Of The Sun prefer pH between 5.5 and 7.5. A simple rule is that if your plants , Birdhouses are growing, , Lap Pools – Great Exercise Inside Or Any Size Backyard flowering , Outdoor Furniture: Exploring the Benefits of Teak and fruiting well, the nutrient levels are fine. If you're just starting out or if you aren't satisfied with the growth of your plants, , Take the Blossom of Various Types of Flowering Trees a little testing can help you get to the root , Wild Flower Garden - Yours to Design and Plan of the matter. Too high or too low pH can result in yellow, stunted and unproductive plants. , Light Up Your Garden And Brighten Your Life Unhealthy plants , Preaparing Your s For Winter are more prone to insect and disease , Lawn Moles and Proper Lawn Care attacks, which translates into more work for you and less satisfaction from your garden. , Improvements in Robotic Lawn Mowers Testing your soil , Attracting Birds to the Garden is like doing home , Lawn Moles and Proper Lawn Care repairs. You can do it yourself , Spring Flowering Bulbs or have someone else do it for you. Doing it yourself , Use Floating Row Covers to Grow Better Cucumbers Without Spraying with a home , Put Your Lawn On a Diet test kit is simple and gives you a basic pH reading and an estimation of the major nutrients in your soil. , Safe Pest Control Tips You can buy test kits at nurseries and garden , The Gazebo Spa: One of 5 Creative Ways to Use Your Gazebo centers and they range from extremely simple to elaborate. The more sophisticated tests cost more, but give you more accurate results. You can also send a soil , How to Grow Chocolate Cosmos sample to a lab for testing. You simply take a representative sample of the soil , Abatement With DDT Concept Needs Second Look from your garden, , A Waste of Packaged Gold fill out a form and mail or take it to the lab. The results are more accurate and detailed that if you do the test yourself , Garden for Birds #3 with a home , Use Floating Row Covers to Grow Better Cucumbers Without Spraying kit, plus testing labs can look for things that home , Lawn Mowers Guide - Cut a Fine Figure of Your Lawn kits cannot, such as organic , Attracting Birds to the Garden matter and micronutrients. Soil-testing labs can also test for heavy metals , Patio Umbrellas and Beach Umbrellas. Practical and Appealing. and other industrial residues. Soils , The Art of Painting Trees and Shrubs near heavily traveled roads or on old industrial sites can contain lead and other unwanted metals , Adirondack Chairs - How to Choose One that you may want to know about before planting a vegetable garden. , Saving Seeds from Your Lab reports give you the current levels of nutrients and soil , Sunflowers pH and also offer specific recommendations about which nutrients to add to your soil , Patented Plants and in what quantity for your plants' optimum growth. Lab tests can get costly, however, especially if you have many different types of plantings, such as perennial flowers, , How to Grow Chocolate Cosmos vegetables , Garden for Birds #3 and lawn , Wood Ticks and you do separate tests for each type. Check the phone , Five Quick Tips to Get Your Kids Gardening book under "Soil Testing" for private soil , Birdhouses labs in your area or contact your state university's extension service. Many state universities test soil , Lawn Moles and Proper Lawn Care for a small fee or can recommend a private testing lab. Most plants , Preaparing Your s For Winter grow best in a pH range from 6.0 to 7.0. Some plants, , Preaparing Your s For Winter however, suck as blueberries and rhododendrons, like highly acidic soil , Birdhouses (pH below 5.0), so you may need to adjust the soil , Garden for Birds #3 pH to individual plants. , Use Floating Row Covers to Grow Better Cucumbers Without Spraying In general, you add lime or limestone to raise the pH and sulfur to lower it. How much lime or sulfur you need to add depends on the type of soil , Using Bulbs in Your Landscaping you have and its current pH. The soil-testing lab will make a specific recommendation based on that information. , Garden Water Feature - The Fish Dish When adding lime or sulfur to your soil, , The Gazebo Spa: One of 5 Creative Ways to Use Your Garden Gazebo remember to wear gloves and a dust mask because this material can be very dusty and irritating if inhaled. You can spread the material by hand or use a drop spreader made to spread grass , Safe Pest Control Tips seed. In the garden, , Planning Your from Scratch - the Planting work the lime or sulfur into the top few inches of soil , Garden Accessories with a rake or shovel after spreading. Don't expect results right away. Most limestone or powdered sulfur products , Light Up Your Garden And Brighten Your Life take a few months to react with the soil , Creating Woodland Gardens enough to change , Teak Furniture: The Premier Outdoor Furniture the pH to the desired levels - another good reason to prepare your soil , Spring Flowering Bulbs a season , Bonsai Plant Care: What You Need to Know before you plan , How to Grow Chocolate Cosmos to plant. , Birdhouses
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