by David The Good
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Check this out, chemistry geeks:
I just got off the phone with Steve Solomon and started mixing up a cure for this lousy stuff. I will post a video soon.
Look at how low the organic matter is! And it is acid, just as I expected.
It is quite interesting to see the reality of what I’m working with here.
I’m David The Good, gardening author, homesteading, survival gardener, nursery owner and plant geek. Let’s grow some food!
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3 responses to “Soil Test Results”
Steve Solomon on speed-dial…hmmm…it’s Good to be The king, eh, David? I’m waiting for my free soil analysis to come back from the WVU County Extension Service. I suspect the soil at our steeply sloped, extremely rocky, sandy shale is so poor that it’s not worth troubling Logan Labs over. But I’m excited to follow your work in amending your Alabama garden. Just don’t forget the immortal words of David the Good: “Planting on someone else’s soil is pointless.” All the best … R
[…] that, however, she just got a soil test back and the results are almost as bad as they were in my garden. She took samples from the dirt beneath her mulch layer and sent them in for testing, and the test […]
Please forgive me for asking a stupid question but can someone buy Steve’s fertilizer already mixed and is there a liquid fertilizer that can be bought also and where?