flowerbug
Garden Master
Thank you very much for all that valuable information, I hope I don't lose this post so I can come back to it.just have to buy the monitors to measure now. We do not have anyone checking our soil to my knowledge but will enquire
another thing to recall is that life is somewhat acidic so by adding organic matter you will be adding slightly acidic things to your soil, which is good as life likes life.
if you want to use natural pH indicators look into making some from red cabbage... i've yet to do any pH checking here. i'm just keeping on adding organic materials when i can and the gardens seem to get better so that is good enough for me. if i ever get some finicky plants then it will be worth a test kit or brewing up some juice.