Why Soil Testing is Important

Soil testing is critical for your landscape for a variety of reasons.

When it comes to your outdoor landscape, it’s always crucial to have healthy soil. Soil serves as an invaluable resource for your landscape, as it offers nutrients to various plants throughout your yard. To make sure you have healthy soil, however, it’s important to get soil testing done. Soil testing is critical for your landscape for a variety of reasons.

You Can Identify Any Nutrient Deficiencies in Your Soil

Soil testing allows you to identify whenever your landscape is lacking vital nutrients, like potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen. When you know what your landscape needs in order to be healthy, you can make the necessary adjustments in the form of fertilizers that will provide your plants the nutrients they need to thrive.

You Can Learn the pH Level of Your Soil

The pH level of soil needs to be closely monitored. It’s this pH level that can impact microbial activity, as well as nutrient availability. For many plants, it’s good to have soil that’s neutral or slightly acidic (somewhere between 6 and 7 pH). By conducting soil testing, you can assess how acidic or basic your soil is, which helps you to foster a better growing environment for any plants that you’re trying to raise.

Give Your Yard Better Soil Structure

Soil testing can also reveal information regarding organic matter content and soil texture. When you test your soil, you’ll know how to improve soil structure. This, in turn, can improve root penetration into the soil, as well as improving drainage and plant health in general. This helps ensure that your plants get the correct amount of nutrients and water.

Keep Over-Fertilization From Happening

While fertilizer can be great for improving plant health, there is such a thing as having too much of it, not unlike water. When you apply too much fertilizer to your soil, that fertilizer can start getting into the groundwater below, which can harm the environment.

By conducting soil testing, you can determine exactly how much fertilizer you need to apply to your landscape. This way, you don’t end up applying too much fertilizer and damaging the environment in the process.

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For over 25 years, Sposato Landscaping has been beautifying and nurturing countless landscapes throughout the Delmarva area. We offer many services, including landscape design, installations, residential maintenance, hardscape, commercial maintenance, and turf nutrient management.

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