Gardening & Landscaping
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
soil testing reports
I read the rec. below to use the extension service for soil testing. I found our state's testing service, and they have a sample report. It tells you what kind of ferticlizer to use. My question is, are there organic fertilizers I could use (besides compost)? I guess I don't want to pay for the service if it is only going to tell me which non-organic fertilizers to use.
Here is the sample report, if that helps.
ETA: I guesss the link doesn't go directly to the sample. Under Lawn and garden, click sample report.
Re: soil testing reports
The report tells you how much NPK ratio you need for optiumum plant growth. (NPK is just shorthand for nitrogen, phosphorus,, potassium.) The report doesn't tell you what specific fertilizer to apply, it just tells you what amounts if the differnt nutrients you need.
Fertilizers are sold by NPK ratio. You can buy organic fertilizers or non-organic fertilizers with specific NPK ratios. (Even vertified organic farmers use fertilizers.)
Compost is not fertilizer. Compost is a type of soil amendment. Compost can be used instead of fertilizer, but you won't find any compost with a NPK ratio and you run the risk of getting your nutrients out of balance.