Northeast Gardening: Veggies 2 (and other Edibles!), 1 by David_Paul

David_Paul wrote:
Anitabryk2 . . .The University of Connecticut had a booth at the HartfordGarden & Flower show last February. pH tests were free on site. If you wanted a soil test, they had a kit for $5 you could send in. Took 4 days to do via USPS. But that was in early March. They said by the middle of April, it could take 10 days. Lead and aluminum were tested as well. Being in an old area on the main road to town and not far from an interstate I wondered about lead. Turns out the levels are only a smidge above background. Not enough to take any action to address (although simply raising the pH, as I did anyways, reduces the uptake of lead and aluminum). Boron and other trace elements were included in the test. Nitrogren was not. A more detailed test was $20 but I think that is for commerical growers.

UConn has information on soil testing which might be handy for those out of state as well:

http://www.canr.uconn.edu/plsci/stlab.htm

Kelloggs Breakfast was ripe this morning. Don't have a scale but it must be pushing two pounds: