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soil testing
« on: February 13, 2011, 16:18 »
hey, can any body recomend a good soil testing kit  for my lottie, think i would like a probe style one

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Re: soil testing
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2011, 16:38 »
hey, can any body recomend a good soil testing kit  for my lottie, think i would like a probe style one

Think Aldi post put on earlier shows these on sale from Thursday. £3.99
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Re: soil testing
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2011, 16:47 »
The chemical ones using a test tube are said to be more reliable than the probe versions.
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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Re: soil testing
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2011, 17:20 »
My probe only told me ph...it didn't tell me anything else.

If you want to know anything other than that (eg NPK levels) I think you have to have the test tubes.

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Re: soil testing
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2011, 17:26 »
The probe-type need to be calibrated before use - so you still need known-pH samples to calibrate against - which is almost as much faff as the test tube ones ... so on that basis the test tube ones might not be very different

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Re: soil testing
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2011, 19:14 »
Test tube type tester every time.   Cheers,   Tony.
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