How to Take A Soil Sample

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Yesterday, Dr. Anna Paltseva filled us in on why it’s important to know what’s in our soil. Today, she tells us EXACTLY how to take a soil sample and where to get the samples tested. Connect With Anna Paltseva: Dr. Anna Paltseva, Endowed Assistant Professor, is an international urban soil scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), School of Geosciences. Her expertise is in urban soil contamination and remediation of urban gardens. She helps people to determine soil heavy metals, their potential impact on human health, and to find the best ways to improve soil quality in urban gardens. In 2021 she established the Delta Urban Soils Laboratory at ULL to provide soil testing services and informal education to communities, small production farmers, and gardeners in Louisiana and beyond. Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	By now you probably know that soil testing is important whether you're doing it for
0:15.8	nutrient density or soil texture or heavy metals, but you might not know how to actually
0:20.6	take a soil sample to proper methodology.
0:24.2	So we have Dr. Anna Palsyva back on the show.
0:27.4	How should I think about this?
0:29.4	And if I'm maybe testing for heavy metals like we talked about yesterday's show.
0:35.4	Sure.
0:36.4	So when you have a garden or backyard of your property, you want to consider different zones.
0:43.6	If it's your ornamental garden, you take one representative sample from that ornamental
0:50.1	garden.
0:51.1	If you have a vegetable garden, you take another sample.
0:53.7	If you have a lawn, you take another representative sample.
0:56.6	So each management zone or zone with different management should have its own representative
1:03.1	sample.
1:04.2	And what do I mean by representative sample?
1:06.0	You basically take samples, multiple samples, depending how big your plant is, but maybe
1:13.8	up to 10 samples, random spots.
1:16.4	And then put it into a bucket, mix it in, and then this is where you collect one representative
1:23.8	sample.
1:24.8	You take one cup or half a cup and put it in a plastic bag or a special container and
1:30.1	send it to the lab.
1:32.4	So representative samples, it's really a mix of multiple samples from one particular area
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