Why You Should Test Your Soil

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

If you are like the team here at Epic, you are curious about what is actually on your soil. Dr. Anna Paltseva shares a few quick ways to test our soils and explains why it’s so important that we know what is in our dirt! 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	If you have been wondering what is in your soil, you are not alone.
0:16.9	That is something that both Jacques and myself and everyone else in the Epic Gardening team
0:20.6	are wondering.
0:21.6	24-7.
0:22.6	In fact, one of the first things that Jacques ever did when he first started working at
0:25.0	Epic Gardening is run a soil test on the soil here at the Epic Homestead.
0:30.2	Well, this week we have Dr. Anna Paltseva on the podcast.
0:33.8	She's an endowed assistant professor and an international urban soil scientist at the
0:38.5	University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
0:42.2	So we haven't had someone with your credentials on the show yet, Anna, I'm really excited
0:47.3	to get into this.
0:48.3	Thank you for having me.
0:49.3	I'm excited to talk to your audience and share what I know.
0:53.4	So we talk about testing soil here on the podcast every so often, but typically we talk
0:59.4	about it more for soil texture, soil quality, as well as nutrient density, but there's
1:05.5	obviously other things that you could test soil for, right?
1:08.4	Yes, absolutely.
1:10.2	This is a great start to start with the soil texture.
1:12.5	I think it's a home address, everyone needs to know soil texture, but soil health, it's
1:19.0	also in composes organic matter and bacterial.
1:24.2	So for those who have resources to test their microbial composition, it would be great,
1:29.6	but there are some kids this days for home gardeners they can use, like microbiometer, for
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