Soil testers range from simple pH strips to complex kits that pinpoint deficiencies. Serious gardeners will want to reach for comprehensive tests. As Jon Traunfeld, director of the Home & Garden ...

When I started gardening, I assumed you could put seeds in dirt, add water and watch them grow into plants. That uneducated approach produced haphazard results and few vegetables. Somehow, I ...

Soil testing is an essential tool for measuring soil fertility. Representative soil samples that have been properly collected ...

In making a pH determination on soil, the sample is saturated with the dye for a few minutes and the color observed. This method is accurate enough for most purposes. Kits (pH) containing the ...

The purpose of these kits is for the user to collect basic soil information in the field, without having to take soils to an analytical soils laboratory. Much of the information that can be obtained ...