This is a photo journal of my small home vegetable garden. Skippy thinks it's his garden, but I've been gardening here for 20 years. We're located near Boston, in eastern Massachusetts, USA (USDA zone 6a). My home garden space is quite small (250 sq ft) and very shady. My challenge is to squeeze in and extend the season as much as I can. This spring, I got a sunny community garden plot assignment! An extra 350 sq ft! I wonder what great veggies I can grow this year?
I mailed out a soil sample from my vegetable garden today for pH, nutrient, heavy metal and organic matter testing. I'm really interested to see how far off the nutrients are. Too much phoshate and low pH, I'm guessing. I also have a photo here of my winter rye sprouts. They're coming up fast.
topic: soil test
posted by kathy at 10/24/2006 12:58:00 PM
Skippy is a very friendly Portuguese water dog. I'm just the gardener who hangs out with him.
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Where did you send your soil test to?
March 07, 2008 2:09 AM
I sent my sample to Dept of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Mass. They were very fast. Just over a week for the results to come back, if I remember right.
March 10, 2008 5:44 PM
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