Spent $75 on a soil test kit and it showed me my whole garden plan was wrong

I was trying to grow blueberries in my backyard for two seasons and they kept dying. I just assumed I was bad at watering. Finally, after wasting money on more plants, I bought a proper soil test kit online. The results came back and my soil pH was way too high, like 7.5. Blueberries need super acidic soil. I had been fighting the wrong problem the whole time. Now I'm amending the soil with sulfur, but it's a slow process. It felt like such a basic thing to miss. Has anyone else had a plant fail because of something simple you didn't check first?

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taragrant4d ago

Fighting the wrong problem" is just part of gardening. I've had stuff die from way dumber oversights, like not checking for proper drainage at all. That $75 test probably saved you way more in dead plants long term.

cameron3184d ago

Seventy-five dollars for a soil test? That's more than I spent on all my plants last year!