How to Test your Soil: Learning about soil lead and soil fertility

Get ready for gardening season with: Soil Testing! Start each year off right with the data you need to make decisions about managing your garden soil and fertilizing your garden.

Starting a new garden? Its important to do a Lead Safety test. Hayly from ACCD will join us to discuss lead safety testing and opportunties for FREE lead screening. Nick from Grow Pittsburgh will join us to discuss evaluting soil test for fertilizer recommendations. Don't Guess, Soil Test! In this workshop we will cover the following:

*How to take a soil sample for testing, participants will practice taking a soil sample!
*Evaluatiing soil safety and testing for Lead
*how to make a lead safety plan of action
*how to read a soil fertility test
*what are the important information to look out for
*how to interpret the results and how to make a plan of action for fertilizing your garden

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