Spent $12 on a soil test kit and it saved my whole veggie bed

My tomatoes were looking rough for 2 seasons straight, yellow leaves and barely any fruit. Turns out the pH was way off and I was overwatering on top of it. Has anyone else tried those cheap test strips from the hardware store and actually gotten good results?

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evanr794d ago

Told my buddy to try one and his peppers went from sad to huge in one season.

ward.piper4d ago

What kind of peppers did he grow? I tried a similar approach with my habaneros and they went from spindly to bushy in no time. The yield was way better than before, easily double what I got the previous season. It's wild what a difference one product can make when you're just adding it to your regular routine.

theas941d ago

I heard a local gardening club speaker mention that peppers really respond to phosphorus and potassium during the fruiting stage. They said a lot of people overdo the nitrogen early on, which just makes for leafy plants with no peppers. That made me rethink my own fertilizer routine for my jalapenos this year. I switched to a bloom booster mix and saw a big difference in how many peppers set on each plant. It's nice to see other people having the same kind of luck with their peppers.