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Soil Testing Made Simple
It's true: I used to drag my feet every year before forcing myself to get a soil test.
Over the years, we've come to love soil testing as an incredible tool to build our soil, decrease our susceptibility to pest insects and disease as well as increase our yields.
Here's the way I think about it:
If you're partying on a pontoon boat above the Great Barrier Reef, you're missing the party.
Grab your snorkel!
And get your soil tested.
Only then will an immensely beautiful and infinitely complex world begin to take shape around you. Your world-view --- and your garden --- will never be the same.
We're sending in our soil samples now!
And Friends, if you've got 20 minutes and $20, I suspect you'll find too that soil testing is both easy and endlessly illuminating. It's one of the simplest ways to ensure you'll be surrounded by beauty and abundance all season long, for many seasons to come.
I'll share how, when and why we test our soils, but first:
When I First --- Truly --- Saw...
Fruition's Spring Giveaway!
Fruition's Spring Giveaway!
Want to set yourself up for an abundant season ahead? Join our Giveaway!
We've teamed up with Neptune's Harvest to give you one quart of organic fish and kelp emulsion, four pounds of organic crab & lobster meal, one Neptune's Harvest hat and bumper sticker plus 12 months of Flourish Garden Club.
That's over $150 value! See full details at the bottom of our post.
In the meantime, let's talk soil building :)
3 Easy Ways to Boost Your Garden Fertility This Spring
So much depends on the seeds you sow. And when you sow them. And how.
If you nail these things but plant into poor soil, you still won't be successful.
Here are three of the best amendments you can add to build soil fertility in your garden:
Organic Compost is magic. It is the work of untold billions of organisms, mostly microscopic, turning proverbial trash into treasure. How to compost well is a whole other subject, but here is the bottom-line: if your compost...
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