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Soil testing Send a sample to
Virginia Tech for analysis
PROBLEM. Can you give me the phone number or address of the
Virginia Cooperative Extension so I may purchase the soil testing kits? - e-mail
SOLUTION. Those soil testing kits are great because you mail the sample off to Virginia
Tech and the university sends you back an analysis report that tells you what the pH or
acidity level of your soil and what nutrients are needed. Your local extension office also
gets a copy of the analysis so it can answer any questions you may have regarding the
report. Cost: $7.
Fall with its warm soil and weather also is a good time to till lime and soil-improving
organic matter into your vegetable garden plot. Then you're ahead of the game come spring.
For kit information, call:
- Chesapeake, 382-6349
- Gloucester, 693-2602
- Hampton, 727-1401
- Isle of Wight County, 365-6256
- James City County, 566-1367
- Mathews, 725-7196
- Middlesex, 758-4120
- Newport News, 591-4838
- Norfolk, 683-2816
- Suffolk, 925-6409
- York County, 890-3730
- Virginia Beach, 427-4769.
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