Proper soil sample preparation is key to precise data on your soil’s pH, nutrient levels, and the exact soil amendments your ...

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Regularly testing your soil is more important than you might think for helping your plants thrive. Soil tests measure soil pH and nutrient content. The soil of established gardens should be tested ...

Learn why soil pH is the most important soil test value and how it affects nutrient availability and lime requirements.

When you test more than 200,000 soil samples in a year, you not only learn something about how Arkansans grow crops, gardens and lawns, but also the value of recommendations that result from soil test ...

In the same way that polluted water can be deceptively clear, polluted soil can just look like plain old dirt. Given the contaminants that can be left behind by gas plants, oil refineries and other ...