What Are You Working With: Soil Testing In Hawaii

Where To Send It, How To Collect It

If you are serious about establishing a garden that will provide consist nutritional bounty then you will want to develop a understanding of where your soil is at the present.  Everything in life seems to be represented in some form of a pie chart, one of the slices in gardening is soil health.

Establishing a basic soil analysis will be the difference between marching blind folded into the unknown and having a map that allows you to navigate to the destination you desire.

Understanding your soil PH level and available nutrient counts is paramount to your ability to produce crops.

Here are a couple links that will get you started;

Testing Your Soil: Why and How to Take a Soil-Test Sample – College of Tropical Agriculture UH

Soil Testing Brochure – Master Gardners

Soil Test Kit: Amazon