{"id":9,"date":"2009-05-04T15:31:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T22:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-05-20T22:18:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T05:18:36","slug":"potting-soil-test-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Potting Soil Test Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were unable to use the regular color pH tests on the potting soil as the liquid is very dark even when filtered.  We therefore bought a pH (and moisture and light) meter from True Value for $13.29.<\/p>\n<p>The pH meter seems to read 1 pH unit too high (alkaline), after comparing results with the color pH test on a different soil sample.  Unless otherwise stated, all pH measurements in this blog will be of actual pH values, not indicated values.<\/p>\n<p>Our potting soil indicated pH6.5, which means the pH is 5.5.  We&#8217;ll need to add some lime or equivalent.  We&#8217;ll also add some all-round fertilizer as we can&#8217;t measure N\/P\/K due to the dark color of the liquid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were unable to use the regular color pH tests on the potting soil as the liquid is very dark even when filtered. We therefore bought a pH (and moisture and light) meter from True Value for $13.29. The pH meter seems to read 1 pH unit too high (alkaline), after comparing results with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-2009-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}