Get to know your lawn or garden better than ever before! SoilKit® provides everything you need to take a successful soil sample. Then you will receive lab reports that are easy to understand and lastly, get recommendations to keep your lawn and garden healthy.
Subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has spent nearly $28 million on landscaping along the new I-4 Ultimate roadway system. “FDOT is aware of the dead trees and blames the dirt,” according to I-4 Ultimate spokesman Dave Parks. I wonder what the baseline soil samples were? Did the project even include a baseline soil sample?…
AgriTech Corp. announces they are now a Woman Owned Certified AlabamaCompany. Current CEO and shareholder, Christina Woerner McInnis, has joinedher sisters, Angela Woerner and Kimberly Woerner Bailey and their mother,Janice Woerner, as majority holding shareholders in AgriTech Corp.AgriTech Corp. is an agricultural-based software company that was founded onfarming principles and knowledge and married to complex…
Every homeowner who has a lawn or garden, is a farmer. Farmers should know that every lawn needs food and nutrients, or fertilizer, water, sun and…..SLEEP. Take a look at the grass plot below. This Palisades Zoysia is planted in a common area in Orange Beach, Alabama. A passerby would not notice something that is…
Quite often when we pitch SoilKit to garden centers, farm co-ops and landscapers, we encounter the question, “why should we sell SoilKit when the county extension office does soil testing at a cheaper price?” This objection is easily overcome by comparing the benefits of SoilKit to the traditional testing done by state university extension offices,…
Nitrogen Element in Soil Testing At AgriTech, we are often asked why we don’t test for nitrogen in our SoilKit™ testing program. It is obvious to even the lay agronomist that nitrogen is the first and heaviest element in a fertilizer analysis, and it’s probably the most important. Its value should be a major concern when…
Working Remotely and Time at Home Not sure about you all but I am getting a lot of unexpected time at home and I amenjoying the bird singing, the crape myrtles blooming and getting the chance toget outside with the kids and get my yard spring ready. When I started the social distancing quarantine, my…
I sat down with Growing America to share incredible tales of growing up on my family farm that has been operating for over 100 years.
70 percent of homeowners reported dissatisfaction in a recent national survey. Start the solution where the problem begins: in the soil. The USDA recommends that you conduct an annual soil sample to allow for detection of soil quality and changes. SoilKit™ has simplified this complicated process in a way that customers can easily and quickly conduct a soil sample and understand the results.
“Soil Kit™, a professional soil testing service, will now be sold at Ace Hardware stores. This product detects soil deficiencies and provides nutrient recommendations through its online portal.”
We discussed the USDA’s recommendation that your soil should be tested annually to ensure that it is healthy. We also explained the importance of using the right products at the right rate for right reason, in an effort to avoid environmental runoff.
