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Knowing, understanding, and controlling your soil’s pH are all crucial to having a successful garden. The tool to help you with all three is a soil test kit. The best soil test kit provides you with a ...

Test the soil before you buy another bag of lawn feed. A lawn sitting at pH 5.0 can be fed four times a year and still look ...

To fertilize or not to fertilize - that is the question. Here is the answer - you won't know whether, how or how much to fertilize until you test the soil. Now, don't start wailing about not having ...

"You are what you eat," I've been told. I eat organic vegetables from my garden. Those plants eat the soil. I think this means I'm nothing but dirt, a simplification with a point. If I'm nothing but ...