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Update your home & garden decor for spring! We have a great selection of gifts too!
Testing pH is essential to properly analyze your soil, and understanding soil chemistry can help gardeners and farmers of any level – from backyard hobby gardeners to commercial agricultural industries – choose the best plants, fertilizers, and amendments for ideal growth and healthy, luxuriant crops.
What Affects Soil pH
Your soil's pH – its overall acidity level – will depend on a number of factors, including:
pH ranges from 0-14, with 7 indicating a neutral soil, lower numbers indicating more acidic soil, and higher numbers indicating more alkaline soil. Different plants perform well at different pH levels, though extreme levels are not desirable for any healthy growth.
To Test Your Soil's pH
There are several ways to test your soil's pH, and which method you choose depends on the time, budget, and resources you have available as well as how precise you would like the result. From the most general methods to the most precise and accurate, popular ways to test soil pH include:
Once you know your soil's pH level, you can better select plants and crops that will thrive in that soil, or you can take steps to adjust the soil's pH with different fertilizers, amendment treatments, or other conditioning to get it to a healthy level for the plants you want. But the testing is the first step!
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