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Soil, Compost & Mulch
thismembername

soil testing information

13 years ago

Hello,
I have a large pile of ash from burning leaves, wood, limbs, pine straw etc, and i've read that ash can be helpful to plants if my soil ph is not over 7.5.

My questions is, how do you test your soil and what tools are used.

Im looking to test my soil soon.

thanks

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