Soil testing speak throughout the DIY neighborhood is selecting up traction once more right here within the fall. A lot of you may have labored laborious all spring and summer time to enhance your garden and as we transfer into the autumn time you are seeking to get even higher heading into the subsequent season and a soil take a look at is your subsequent logical step.

(Here’s a FREE Information on studying and decoding your soil take a look at)

When Is The Greatest Time To Soil Take a look at Your Garden?

You’ll be able to truly take a look at your soil at anytime through the 12 months. In case you can pull cores of soil or dig down and get the soil sitting 3-4″ beneath then you will get it examined. It does not matter if the soil is 95 levels once you acquire it or 39 levels. It may be dry or moist, smooth or laborious. All that issues is that you may get to it and put it into the take a look at cup.  BUT DON’T TEST YET!

The one factor that it is advisable to think about earlier than testing your soil is what and once you utilized to your garden most lately. Fertilizers that haven’t totally damaged down can contaminate your pattern and throw off your outcomes.

That is why I DO RECOMMEND that you just wait not less than 45 days after your earlier fertilizer purposes earlier than you pull soil and take a look at. Fall is definitely a good time for this primarily based on the methods I train. Let me break it down for you.

Cool Season Lawns – Soil Testing in Fall

For cool season of us, once you comply with my plan that I lay out for you within the app, it should suggest you apply 24-0-6 Flagship Fertilizer about each 4-5 weeks till soil temps vall beneath 55. At that time, the subsequent software you apply shall be your winterizer and that’s going to be someday simply earlier than the bottom freezes.

Primarily, the “winterizer” is an software you apply very very late within the season and it really works for you through the coming spring. For almost all of you, I’m going to suggest you pattern your soil simply earlier than the winterizer.

That is in all probability going to be 45 days or so after your earlier app. In case you you may have my free app, it should inform you when to do that.

If you do not have the app, simply do an software of Flagship someday across the center of October after which that approach you are able to do your winterizer round Thanksgiving (45 days later). You’ll wish to take a look at your soil proper earlier than you apply this remaining software on Thanksgiving. Make sense?

Heat Season Lawns – Soil Testing in Fall

For us heat season of us, issues are a little bit simpler as a result of we do not have to fret about snow coming in and spoiling our plans. For heat season turf, I usually suggest you go away from greater nitrogen and push extra potassium from fall into winter. The 7-0-20 Stress Mix is the go-to in fall for Bermuda, Zoysia, St Augustine, centipede and bahia grasses.

So for you, simply choose a while between now and December and create a forty five day hole. You’ll be able to nonetheless apply bio-stimulants RGS Root Development Stimulant and Humic12 anytime you need however lay off the Stress Mix, MicroGreene and Air8 for a forty five day interval earlier than you take a look at. (Air8 has an 0-0-5 evaluation, FIY)

45 Days Minimal – FREE GUIDE

In order that’s actually all there’s to it – fall is a good time to check your soil, simply guarantee you haven’t utilized fertilizer to the garden for not less than 45 days prior. Going even longer is okay too and bear in mind, there’s a fully FREE information I wrote that talks much more about establishing a method to your garden primarily based on the outcomes of a soil take a look at. you’ll be able to obtain that right here.