You've said the word soil a couple of times rather than dirt why soil over this dirt.

I don't call soil dirt because there is no life in it. There is life in the soil so there are microorganisms in soil. There are nutrients and soil which have those in there. OK but there again yes weeds grow in dirt. OK. So yes there is a little bit of life but that the Cheerio's the dog care the Krumm the who knows what else you have on your kitchen for that.

What can people put in their soil for their own garden.

What should they put into compost compost. Is a soil amendment compost can be mixture of nitrogen and carbon usually. We want a 30 to 1 ratio so carbon that would come from your brown Neeve like your dad leaves in the fall. Make sure that you're using leaves from a healthy tree. We don't want leaves that come from a tree that is carrying a disease and then you let your could clipping from hopefully an untreated Lawn because if you treat your life special you're putting chemicals on it organic or not grass clippings from an untreated lawn into your vegetable garden.

Now if you are looking for compost for your flower bed or you know putting around your shrubs spare mulching for protection for winter then you know yeah that's okay.

It's a vicious cycle where eventually those lawn treatment can get into our wildlife.

How do we test how do we test her soil.

Sarah by simply either taking a shovel or soil probe we gather a sample I take mine down to the extension a general one cost to around seventeen dollars and you get the result within two weeks. You get emailed to you or you can have a mailed to you and you can also have the option of paying a little bit extra to test for certain nutrients.