Soil testing & kits

Jersey Devil said:
I dig a hole, I stick stuff in it. If it dies I try no remember not to do it again next year. If it grows I try to remember to repeat it next year. Every year I stick something new in the ground and wait. My entire knowledge is from the little tags that come with the plant. :ROFLMAO: Some people here will think "what a lazy ass idiot". And they would be right :cool:
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You make me chuckle, and a laugh can be just as good for a gardener as the plants they endeavour to grow. I'm afraid that this has often been my attitude as well, and it has been fun learning. If things die and there are spaces, I divide some plants if they will put up with it, and take cuttings of others to fill the gaps in, as well as spending the grocery money on a few new ones .... 🤭
 
@Jersey Devil I have an orange tree planted on the North side ( big no-no), left it there right next to an Italian Cypress tree, forgot about it because I was sure it would die, and now It's bigger than me. !!😄 Wrong plant in wrong place, but evidently, my orange tree never Googled it's optimal growing conditions !!😎

Nobody's perfect. Sometimes you stick the plant in the perfect place with the perfect soil and the perfect light conditions and the thing still croaks on ya. Other times you, without enough forethought, just plop it in a very inappropriate place and the dang thing takes off like a UFO spotted over a neucular power plant !! 😲

This is why gardening is so fun; you never really know what to expect !! 😄
 
I pretty much immediately knew it was the boron levels (as per our previous conversation) about 2/3rds through the season when nothing was producing. I was holding out hope that it was the grasshoppers just based off of the immense number of chewed leaves at all times, but I think the test results confirmed our suspicions.
 
Ostrodamus said:
... I think the test results confirmed our suspicions.
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Yep, and if you were to ask them, many so-called garden "experts" will tell you soil tests are unnecessary. I've even had one on another garden forum state that soil tests are a conspiracy of the fertilizer manufacturers to sell synthetic fertilizers. Amazing!

That is also why MySoil tests are superior and worth every penny they cost...they test for micro-nutrients like Boron. And on this thread...some are arguing that the best knowledge is free.
Tetters said:
... Most of the knowledge I have picked up over the years is accidental, and most definitely free! 🥴
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QED!!
 
Meadowlark said:
Yep, and if you were to ask them, many so-called garden "experts" will tell you soil tests are unnecessary. I've even had one on another garden forum state that soil tests are a conspiracy of the fertilizer manufacturers to sell synthetic fertilizers. Amazing!

That is also why MySoil tests are superior and worth every penny they cost...they test for micro-nutrients like Boron. And on this thread...some are arguing that the best knowledge is free.

QED!!
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To be fair: Tetters said: " "Most" of the knowledge she pickup was
free. " and, if I read her response correctly, was referring to gardening knowledge "in general" and wasn't meaning that soil testing was unnecessary. IMHO.
 
Meadowlark said:
@Tetters is more than capable of explaining herself...and the thread is titled "Soil Testing & kits" :) :)
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Oh, of course she is !! "I" am also a member here and have the ability to respond to posts. When I see an obvious misepresentation I can point that out, can't I, as can you.

She was ONLY referring to the one sentence that she quoted. She was very clearly not referring to anything else, not to whether or not soil testing is necessary.
 
Meadowlark said:
@Tetters is more than capable of explaining herself...and the thread is titled "Soil Testing & kits" :) :)
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I am so disappointed and very surprised at your seemingly newly found ignorant comments that I am finding it difficult to answer your rudeness.
I most definitely have no reason to explain myself - especially to you.
Some of us mere mortals just love our gardens, and we speak as we find, in as friendly a way as we can. Maybe it would do you good to try moving down a peg or two.
 
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