Soil Test Kit

Easy-to-Use Soil Test Kit

Have you wondered if your efforts to amend your soil are working, but don't know how to test your soil? You are not alone.

Redmond's Soil Test Kit, powered by MySoil, makes testing your soil simple and easy. This test successfully combines accurate soil testing technologies with an easy-to-use customer experience that assists in improving soil and plant health, while effortlessly guiding sustainable practices.

Our goal is to support users in perfecting their soil to grow the healthiest plants possible. This custom approach helps you know exactly what your soils need to thrive. No PhD required.

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FAST, THOROUGH, AND CONVENIENT

Redmond's soil test kit is simple to use, delivers results in 6-8 days, and provides convenient access to your data on our easy to use dashboard.

HELPS YOU GROW HEALTHIER PLANTS

Healthy plants come from healthy soil. Whether your plants are for eating, looking at, or playing on…soil testing should be the first step. From here, you can accurately feed your soil environment including microbes, fungi, insects, and more. Feeding your soil increases the chemical and biological availability of the nutrients and minerals your plants need to thrive, and passes health benefits up the food chain for all to enjoy.

SAVES YOU MONEY

By honing in on exactly what your soil needs, Redmond's soil test kit saves you from making unnecessary purchases and helps you know how much to apply so you get more bang for your buck.

ELIMINATES GUESSWORK / PREVENTS MISAPPLICATION

Stop guessing and start growing! Testing allows you to make educated and informed decisions about how to help your soil. Soil health is a balancing act. Applying the wrong amendments, or even overapplying the right amendments, can throw this balance off and have far reaching and long lasting effects. Misapplication and overapplication can kill off the essential microbe colonies in your soil and even cause eutrophication or “nutrient pollution.” Excess nutrients, especially those found in NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) fertilizers, leach out and pollute waterways. Soil testing results provide you with application rates that help you apply only what is needed and fertilize in a responsible and sustainable way.

Frequently Asked Questions

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE KIT?

Registration card (with instructions and QR Code link), pre-paid, first class USPS return service envelope (with tracking number), soil scoop, and sample storage jar (with DI water and nutrient adsorbing capsule).

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO GET MY RESULTS?

Redmond’s Soil Test Kit is simple to use, delivers results in 6-8 days, and provides convenient access to your data on our easy to use dashboard.

HOW OFTEN SHOULD I TEST MY SOIL?

If you are actively growing and harvesting from a plot of soil, testing every year is ideal (preferably in the fall).

If you are following or resting ground between growing sessions, you can test once every 2 years. Don't wait more than 3 years to test soil.

If you test in the fall, amend, and put soil to bed over the winter, then testing again in the spring can give you an idea of how well your amendments corrected soil problems.

WHY DOESN'T THE REDMOND SOIL TEST KIT TEST FOR % OF ORGANIC MATTER?

While percentage of organic matter (% OM) is a common metric found on other soil tests, the experts at MySoil and Redmond choose to look at the bigger picture: balanced levels of macro and micro nutrients, and healthy pH ranges. These metrics help you choose the right amendments to help soil microbes break down organic matter into bio-available forms your plants can use.

We recommend always adding organic matter to your soil, regardless of whether you think it would test high or low. Good sources of organic matter include: manure, leaves, compost, and straw.

WHAT DOES THE SOIL TEST KIT MEASURE?

Essential soil macronutrients (needed in larger amounts):

Nitrogen - broken down into total nitrogen (N), nitrates (NO3-N), and ammonium (NH4-N)
Phosphorus (P)
Potassium (K)
Sulfur (S)
Calcium (Ca)
Magnesium (Mg)
Sodium (Na)

Essential soil micronutrients (needed in smaller amounts):

Iron (Fe)
Manganese (Mn)
Zinc (Zn)
Copper (Cu)
Boron (B)

pH levels (balance between acidity and alkalinity)

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