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How to Test the pH Level of Your Soil
Knowing your soil's pH values can help you solve many lawn and garden problems. Here's how to test your soil's pH levels.
Top 4 Reasons Why Your Garden's pH is Out of Whack
The pH of your nutrient solution or soil is not a constant thing. In this article, Eric Hopper looks at the top four suspects that could...
5 Mistakes Rookie Home Growers Make
If you are new to maintaining a home garden, there are a handful of rookie mistakes that are easy to make. Fortunately, you don't have to...
How to Understand a Water Quality Report
Water is everywhere, but, increasingly, it is less fit for consumption for your plants. From pesticides to heavy metals, pollutants can...
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Plant Analysis
From helping solve nutrient issues to performing a vital role in crop research, here are the benefits and drawbacks of plant analysis.
How to Optimize the Strength of Hydroponic Nutrient Solutions
Accurately measuring the concentration of your nutrient solution being applied to your crops is critical for optimizing yields, but don’t...
Balancing Act: Understanding the Ups and Downs of pH
The best growers have the basics of horticulture down pat. One of the most important basics is understanding pH.
Conduct Yourself Accordingly: Measuring Electrical Conductivity for Bigger and Healthier Plants
One often-overlooked aspect of growing is electrical conductivity, or EC, which measures the quantity of available nutrients in your soil.
Understanding the Five Most Important Parameters on Your Soil Test Report
Considering sending your soil off to get tested at the lab? Good idea! Professional soil testing is highly recommended as it is more...
Now & Then: Electrical Conductivity in the Garden
Electrical conductivity measurements were once one of the only ways growers could check up on the elemental concentrations of their...
Ready, Tech, Grow: Emerging Technology in Agriculture
Life on the farm isn’t what it used to be. Where there used to be farm hands and back-breaking labor, today there is automation, artificial...
How Do I Calibrate a pH Pen?
A pH pen is a tried-and-true piece of equipment every serious gardener should own and know how to use.
Why You Should Be Taking Photos of Your Plants
Observing the plants in your garden closely is key to successful harvests year after year. One way to ensure intimate visuals that you can...
Why You Should Keep a Plant Journal
A journal can help a gardener keep track of the progress of plants and compare the results of using different techniques, tools and...
Understanding PPM in Soil
The over-used expression, ppm, is short-hand for parts per million, and it’s one of the most common items that shows up on soil test...
10 Instruments Every Grower Needs
Growers can never have enough information to gauge the state of their plants. From auxanometers to Brix meters, the more beta the better....
6 Must-Have Gadgets for Growers
There are tools and instruments that can make your life as a grower a little easier once you have the basic equipment up and running.
The Power of pH
The power of pH in your garden is mighty. It can contribute to thriving, vibrant plants with high yields, or kill all your plants in one...
Dialing In Your Greenhouse
For commercial greenhouse growers, providing the optimal growing conditions for plants is vital to success.
