Soil sample taken .

 
Hi,

 I got a Accugrow test kit and a D hoe from Johnnies today.   I just had to
go dig a hole.   So I went out and dug a hole in the snow and soil to get a
sample.  And did a test. This is what I came up with.

PH               7
Nitrogen       A
Phosphorus  D
Potassium     C- D  , but its closer to D then C

Last year I mixed up liquid fish fertilizer and poured it on the plants
using a hand waterer.   And that's mostly nitrogen.  So that guess worked
out. It was 5-1-1,   0r 3-1-1.

Other then that, And the fact I just dug a hole in the snow in the dark.
It looks like I'm nitrogen deficient.  And the fact that the kit doesn't
show PH above 7.  How would you know if your PH is over 7.

Diesel

 

Litmus paper

or

<http://chemistry.about.com/od/acidsbase1/a/red-cabbage-ph-indicator.htm>
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   That is so cool,    I have 3/4 of that stuff.

 

Have fun, Dawg.
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- Billy
"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the
poor have no food, they call you a communist."
-Archbishop Helder Camara
http://peace.mennolink.org/articles/israelpeacegroups.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/20111812130964689.html

 Billy wrote:

What do these letters A, B etc mean in this context?



How weird that they don't cover that.  I would expect there to be quite a
few districts in the USA where the typical soil pH would be alkaline.
Consider testing in several places before amending your soil, as sample of
one is not very representative.

This isn't going to be very accurate because litmus changes colour over
quite a wide range of pH, you are probably not going to be able to tell if
the pH is 7, 8 or above 8 using litmus.  There are dye indicator systems
that will give you a much better reading.  I forget the brand of the one I
have and as the temperature is about 42C I am not going out to the shed to
find it right now.

David