Laboratory Soil Testing Advance your garden dreams with a soil testing kit today! Stop guessing what your garden needs and wasting money on unneeded fertilizers and garden products. Instead, learn what your soil is missing or has in excess, and make intelligent decisions when fertilizing or adding products to your soil. Having your soil tested is the first step at becoming a serious grower and producing tons of food and flowers from your farm. Our tests are provided by AgSource Laboratories and offer the essential testing requirements for home gardeners or small-scale growers. Our Routine Soil test gives you accurate and fast laboratory results for pH, Buffer pH, Organic Matter, P, K, Ca/Mg, CEC lime, and recommendations for soil improvement. Simply order our test kit, take accurate soil samples, and mail in your soil to our partner lab. Results will be emailed to you. How does it work? It’s simple! Order a test kit from us today; it includes all the information you need to take an accurate and reliable soil sample from your garden. Fill out the enclosed paperwork, send in samples, and your results will be sent by email, along with fertilizing recommendations. This test is not intended to test for contaminants. Soil Testing Kits make for great gifts! Shop all gifts here. Sample results from Laboratory Soil Testing: Instructions for Completing Submission Form for Laboratory Soil Testing (included in the test kit, used here just as a reference) Completely fill in the name and address information. Please include phone and email, if applicable. Fill in account information. Check report format wanted. Special Problems – indicate any special problems in the area sample. Use codes to describe. Landscape Codes Use code numbers for plants and plant groupings for your laboratory soil test. If the sample is not a turf sample, place code number(s) on the front side of the information sheet under the landscape category. Limit three. In your soil testing kit, you can choose specific crops you wish to grow and the results will include specific recommendations. Here are just a few to choose from! Your kit will have complete options. Asparagus Linden “Leafy” Vegetable Potatoes Blueberries Currants Grapes Raspberries Strawberries Mock Orange Mugho Pine Ninebark Oak Pachysandra Pea Scrub, Siberian Periwinkle (Vinca) Pine Plum or Cherry Poplar Potentilla Privet Quince, Flowering Redbud, American Rose Russian Olive Shadbush Snowberry Spirea Spruce Sumac Sycamore Viburnum, Virginia Creeper Wayfaring Creeper Weigela Winter Creeper Witch Hazel Yew, Japanese Rhubarb Root Vegetables Sweet Corn Tomatoes “Vine” Crops Annual Flowers Bulbs-Fall Bulbs-Spring Chrysanthemums Dahlias Gladioli Houseplants Iris Lilies Peonies Perennial Flowers Roses Wildflowers Apples Black Walnut Cherries Hickory Pears Plums Vegetable Garden Small Fruits Flower Garden Tree Fruits & Nuts Shade Trees, Ornamental Trees & Shrubs If you are a new gardener, we recommend you check out all our educational and reference materials. We have several online classes available, planting magnets, comprehensive planting calendars, and more!
