How to Test Your Garden Soil - Ep 126
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- I had a rare opportunity to be able to plant an 800 square foot area of my community garden, which laid barren for 25 years. Prior to that, the land had a building on it, which eventually got demolished. This could mean that all sorts of toxins, contaminants and heavy metals remained in the soil, so I wanted to see for myself. The only way of knowing, however, was to do a soil test, so this video will introduce you to what soil tests are, why you should test your soils, and how to do it.
Relevant links:
* Cornell University Soil Health Lab - soilhealth.cal...
* Get your soil tested - soilhealth.cal...
* Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health - soilhealth.cal...
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This was a really great episode! Kirsten is a total natural, super comfortable in front of the camera and explained things clearly while keeping it interesting. Loved it.
Kirsten is an excellent speaker. Thanks for this - I''ll be sending this to my father-in-law (a farmer).
She has such composure. Glad you are passing the information along!
She is having way too much fun with her soil :). So nerdy, so good!
it's beautiful to see how the quality of your videos and content keeps growing and growing :-)
Glad you appreciate the quality. :)
I've been learning about regenerative agriculture as well as working on soil health advocacy so I was so excited to see this video! How fun to see the Slake Test being performed in your video! Soil health is so important and I hope to see industrial agriculture transform very very soon so we can help alleviate the devastation of floods, droughts, acidifying oceans, as well as help put nutrients back into our food! Recent studies have shown that a carrot grown on a traditional farm now only has 1/100th of the nutrients than one grown on a farm that takes care of their soil. So shocking!
Go Big Red! Absolutely loved this episode. Incredibly interesting and thorough survey of different soil analytics to show the real effects of different management styles.
Glad you enjoyed and that it was informative! ("Far above Cayuga's waters!")
This was such an educational episode. I loved it. It made me recall when I was in high school and I was part of the garden project that my school started as a way to appease sponsors who were giving the school grants to promote healthier eating in students. I was there when the garden was first started and I know for a fact no one bothered to test the soil for anything, not even it's pH, and I swear I don't think we even used compost once. The instructor in charge of the garden would leave us to our own devices and my best friend (a 17 year old) who had worked in a community garden before was the one who basically ran and managed everything the best that she could. If only we had an instructor who cared about what we were doing and cared about actually teaching students about all the fascinating intricacies of growing our own food. It would have been a completely different experience and the garden would be thriving today instead of being scrapped the year after we graduated.
So sorry to hear that the garden at your school was being pushed into a rock and a hard place with special interests, but nevertheless, it sounds as if you are able to look back on it with clear eyes. Glad that you got some information out of this film too; perhaps for your next garden!
I wish Kirsten was my teacher/professor. She is amazing.
She is marvelous! She'll be coming back on the channel soon :)
There are tons of things to learn about soil management in this episode alone!!
Fun to have access to the lab🐸🐾👣
glad you can appreciate!
A fascinating video, especially the difference between soil management (tillage), and non-tilling. Definitely learned a lot. Great work, thanks for all the work that you do!
Very pleased that it shed some light into the somewhat esoteric world of soil!
This was the first and only soil testing video I actually understood and learned some valuable info from! I could watch it again and still find it interesting! Great video Summer ...thank you! The testing demonstrations were awesome!👩🏼🔬
I have to say hats off to Kirsten for being so good at explaining.
Love this! Soil science is so interesting to me. Looking forward to the soil art episode!
Coming up on Sunday! It makes me tear up a little
Who would have thought soil could be so interesting! Thanks for the educational video! I listened to the video on my commute to work and felt like I was listening to NPR.
So pleased you can nerd out on soil :)
Please keep more videos like this coming!
This is so educational especially living in a urban place. Thank you so much summer 🌿🌱🍃
You're very welcome. Glad you can appreciate the information. This one took a while to shoot. Multi-season!! Four trips! aye!
Love these types of field trips! Such an informative video!
Very pleased that you appreciate the information here.
Wow never knew tilling the soil is damaging it ! I think the new age farmers must be made aware... Thanks for this very informative episode Summer and thanks to your friend at Cornell!
right?
So pleased it was informative. And you'll be seeing Kirsten again!
@@summerrayneoakes looking forward to it!
Hi Summer! This video was so interesting. Kirsten explained everything in such a way that it made sense and was very easy to understand. I really liked the part about tilling vs. not tilling the soil and how tilling disturbs the layers of microorganisms. And thank you, too, for answering the question from Sarah M below on turning the soil in a raised garden bed. This is how we grow our vegetables and it will be very helpful for next year. This is only the 2nd year we've had raised beds and when we added more compost, we mixed it in with maybe 4-6 inches of the existing soil combination from last year. So, would it be ok to just mix in with the top 1-2 inches, or better not to mix it at all? Thank you for sharing!
Hi Summer! This was really neat to see, especially the 2 soils being tested in the beakers, but I have a question about tilling. Should I not turn the soil in my raised garden every year in the spring when I break up the soil and re level everything to get ready for planting?
It's recommended not to turn the soil, since you'll likely disturb the lower microorganisms. I actually leave my soil as much alone as possible in my raised bed. I leave the leaf litter on top too (leave it all throughout the year and let it build up) that falls to soil and only pull out the unwanted weeds in the early spring before I plant. You can add more fresh soil to top, but I actually don't even do that much any longer. It's amazing how rich the soil is without too much interference! Thanks for the great question.
That was such a simple but dramatic experiment to show the differences between tilled and not tilled soil! The jury is out. Years ago I'd see a gardening neighbour who always had he soil churned around the plants and I thought I was a lazy gardener for not doing it. I admit I also didn't think it was a good idea. So I guess I wasn't lazy after all. LOL
Like you, I love how this experiment shows how we can do so much more with the Earth by just treading more lightly
This was very educational. There is so much in involved in soil testing..and methods, that you thought were good, such as tilling.. are not so good. This was very interesting. Thank you, Summer.
Wow! That was very thorough yet very interesting.
This was so interesting and informative. I’m trying to fix erosion issues and get grass and I have a lot of compacted clay soil , oaks and pines on my property
This is such an interesting and informative video. Would never have thought tilling was bad for the soil. Would you consider an episode (or series) on how to garden without tilling? I would love to turn my 1.5 acres into a small homestead and would find that so helpful. Thank you for all the wonderful videos and great information.
I think when I get my own plot of land we'll be able to do that!
Amazing video, very informative! Thank you Summer.
you're welcome!
Thank u. Tt was very helpful information. I didnt realised tt there is so much more to gardening.
I geek soil😍Best episode yet! Give thanks.
Dirty Snow Globe, great band name.
This is so great! As a horticulture student this was such an educational video delivered in just an interesting way! Sharing this with my soils teacher and class mates :)
Very pleased you're sharing it to your fellow classmates!
Awesome video! Such great info and super interesting 🌱💚
What a wonderful episode! I learned so much from this. Thank you for making this! I always love hear more about about these things because all plantlife (and fauna too) are based on it too.
Very pleased you enjoyed the nerdiness of the video; information that I feel the whole world needs to know.
@@summerrayneoakes Exactly. I think we became too separate from nature and the knowledge such as the one you presented here. It is so basic and so fundamental, our food supplies rely on it, and yet so few are interested or have access to the info. So yeah, thank you.
Just when i fall again into the trap of thinking i couldn't possibly love this channel more, you go and
drop half-hour science bomb episodes on us. Damn Summer, do you sleep?
Most of the channels i follow are science/education/gardening/plants so this is like the Avengers crossover movie for me.
From the president of Hoyas (Torill) to the queen of Aroids (Enid) to the princess of soil(Kirsten),
your trips are some of the best magic school bus episodes ive seen.
Ps. Kirsten is really good at this, i feel like she could make me understand everything she does in that lab within a day.
Haha Alex, you have some of the most impressive pop cultural references..and I have to say I know so very little of pop cultural, BUT I am so appreciative you can appreciate the nerdiness of the channel. Trying to keep it entertaining and educational is a hard balance. And this episode required four trips and was a bear to edit! Glad it kept your attention. More of Kirsten soon. :)
Very very informative 👍🏻👍🏻
So much to be aware of before we plant our edibles thanks for the info
Always good to be precautious!
Love your videos! So much educational
So pleased!
This is very informative. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed the information :)
very useful video! thank you so much
Wow this was super informative and interesting!
Very pleased you enjoyed.
Nice to see
Very informative 🙂
Great video !!!
My landlord/friend had his soil tested in Philadelphia & we were basically told not to grow anything there😅 So I built a raised bed instead 🤷🏻♀️
lol stay safe out there aha
OMFG fancy seeing you here!🙃
Raised beds are almost the only answer in urban areas!
Very interesting and informative, thank you.
you're welcome!
There are more organisms in a teaspoon of soil then there are people on the planet. Now there's an interesting rabbit hole! ✍️)))
Omg this is interesting! 👀
My country still view hemp as mary jane and that is not a good thing 😒
(11:10) - “is it the poop or the slime”. Sometimes serious science can be really funny!
A really well put together video. Cornell has such amazing research facilities. ~ I have to admit that I was surprised by the excellent test results. I guess ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ‘ happily after all! ~ Something easily overlooked by many is how long it takes for the toxins that mankind has polluted earth’s soils with to even begin to break down. We can outlaw the use and production of these substances but we will continue to suffer from their toxic legacy far into the future. By example; the California Condor was saved from being at the brink of extinction caused by toxins, habitat loss, etc., bred in captivity and reintroduced into the wild . Now it has been determined that the DDT, etc., that persists in the environment today continues to threaten the Condor’s ability to reproduce. There is a search underway to find wild places in California where the food chain has low enough levels of toxins so that the Condors can be introduced there and successfully increase their numbers. DDT and many other toxins often become concentrated in the bodies of animals. The higher up the food chain, the higher the concentration. Condors are high on the food chain.......people are the highest.
Some of my background research was actually in the health incidents revolving around the land application of sewage sludges (cwmi.css.cornell.edu/Sludge/Newsolutions.pdf) and organic chemicals in sewage sludges (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16750559). We were finding toxins (that had been banned decades ago) in present day soils-some far exceeding superfund site levels. This was the research that I was doing with the Cornell Waste Management Institute in my undergrad and really opened my eyes and was very formative in my own career path. Glad you can find this stuff interesting. It's vital.
Fun fact sunflowers remove radiation from soils.
Ultrabasic forest. Grow on soil so contaminated with natural arsenic and lead.. the forests that grow on them are stunted