Welcome to the Old Fashioned On Purpose Podcast.

I don't know about you, but I am so ridiculously happy to see the surge in gardening lately.

Seeds are sold out everywhere. Potting soil is sold out. People are getting this urge to take charge of their food supply and I kind of love it. I want to offer as much support and resources as I possibly can if you are one of these new victory gardeners.

And in today's episode, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about

soil testing whether you have an existing garden plot or you're digging one up in your

front yard for the first time do you you need to test your soil? Is there

benefit? Is it something you should bother with? We're going to answer all those

questions and more in this episode. I'm your host Jill Winger and this is the podcast for the Trail Blazers, the Mavericks, the

makers, the homesteaders, the modern pioneers, and the backyard farmers.

If you're ready to boost your food security and increase your self-sufficiency, well, you have found your tribe.

Okay, so this is based off of a blog post. I did a year or two ago, and if you want to check out

the written version, because sometimes I don't know, I learn better when I read something,

I will include a link to this blog post in the show

notes, but basically in this blog post I chronicled the process of how we tested our

soil. I think it was a year and a half ago, two years ago, and it was a really, really

eye-opening experience for me and I've had a ton of questions ever since about how we did it, if it was worth it,

what I do it again, and so on.

So I thought it would be good to dive into this

in today's episode.

So the first question, I think I want to address is, should you bother

with this? Should you go to the effort of figuring out how to test your soil? And the answer is it depends.

It really depends on your area if you have concerns about the soil.

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