Plan for spring – Get ready to test your soil.

Plan for spring! Get ready to test your soil and plan your garden. Here in New England you may see your grass and garden again soon as the snow melts over the next two weeks. Plan on running a soil test if you haven’t in the past 2 years, or ever. Pulling and preparing a sample for shipment to the soil test laboratory is easy or call us and we will be happy to handle it for you. For do it yourselfers-start with a clean bucket and clean small garden spade to take samples 3 to 6 inches deep for turf or 6 to 8 inches deep for gardens and ornamental beds. Use a random walk around the sample area to pull around 12 samples, mix them up, let them dry on a plain piece of paper, then mix them again and put a cup into a sandwich bag to mark with your sample id and send to the lab.