331 - Home Gardener's Guide to Soil Testing with Christina McInnis of SoilKit
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.4 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Soil testing can be one of the most important things we do in the home garden. The health of our crops and the yields they produce can all come from the elements within the soil. Today we're talking with Christina McInnis of SoilKit on what it means to test your soil and how to read those results and turn them into a course of action for your home garden. If you want to test your soil this fall, this episode is a must listen.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | How did your garden do this year? |
| 0:04.0 | Did you have some areas in your garden that didn't perform quite the way you expected? |
| 0:09.0 | I know that I have that most years and sometimes it's not the same garden areas. |
| 0:13.0 | Or maybe you're listening to this podcast episode getting ready to plant your first garden. |
| 0:19.0 | Regardless, I am thrilled to introduce to you Christina McGinnis of Soilkitt. |
| 0:24.9 | She is one of the guests, maybe the only guests that I have actually met in person. |
| 0:30.7 | We actually met when I was on a family vacation down at Gulf Shores, Alabama, several years ago. |
| 0:37.0 | And we were talking about her company. |
| 0:39.1 | At that point, they were getting off the ground doing soil kit, soil testing for home |
| 0:43.5 | gardeners. |
| 0:44.1 | I got to hear the backstory of how she built this business. |
| 0:47.9 | And since then, the product has been growing in many ways and is so much better even now than it was then, |
| 0:56.2 | especially for home gardeners. And what I love about Christina is she does her research. |
| 1:00.8 | She does have a science background, but she can explain things in a way that those of us |
| 1:05.7 | without a science background can understand. Christina's going to talk to us today about what soil testing actually would mean to a home |
| 1:14.3 | gardener, why a soil testing lab is different from the soil kits you may get at Lowe's |
| 1:20.9 | and other big box stores. |
| 1:23.5 | And then she's going to talk to you about how you can apply different organic ingredients to your garden. |
| 1:29.5 | This is one thing that I feel like sets soil kit apart because if you've ever had your soil tested, |
| 1:34.3 | especially with your cooperative extension service, sometimes it's really hard to understand, |
| 1:39.3 | which is where her product definitely fills a gap there. We're going to talk about that in this |
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