Soil test kits, imo, are a friggin rip off. I mean, what youre really going to find out is what your soil ph is in conjunction with your tap water. Which really isnt your soil ph or your runoff ph.

You can pick up a ph meter at home depot for less than 20 bucks. Id recommend at least getting one of those. Also the aquarium test isnt a bad idea, at least then you can test your soil runoff/tap water and make some educated guesses on your soil ph. Like, if your runoff is an 8, then you know its to high.

Idk, thats what I would do.
carinia Reviewed by carinia on . Help with checking pH So I've never checked pH before and I'm a little confused on how this is to be done. I have one of the liquid testing kits with the little capsules and the container with the color chart. So container has two lines. The first line, near the bottom, designates where you fill the soil up to, and the second line, way up at the top, designates where to fill the water to. It says to take your soil, filter out anything like rocks out of it, dry it out and mix it up good, and fill the container up Rating: 5