Jonathan Soto asked a great question in our telegram group do you guys always get a lab
test every time you guys reuse the soil or just guess how much to add in this video we're going
to get into it you're here with Mark bowwell at perfectgardens.com please remember to like share
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link down in the description so a soil now lab tests in my just again my opinion pants or [ __ ]
everyone has one our total farce just because and I I promise like I could get into a conversation
with the leading soil biologists like the lady Ingram or whoever you know John Kemp and I've
listened John Kemp a number of times now already I mean at least 100 hours of listening to John
Kemp and his different viewpoints and with some of the things I've really realized where they're
missing on their awareness they're just general knowledge of it is like they're not thinking
about the secondary bonds and the atoms of the lab analysis now the the soil so they're like oh check
for nitrogen right but these things check for very specific very very specific things like they check
for very specific chemicals you know like they might be testing for nitrogen but they're not
just checking for like the secondary bonds and that really tells you kind of what's in your soil
and the reason why they don't is because how much it costs you know it's like the whole testing even
in water is a farce it's a total lie it's like a complete scam and there's three degrees actually
for testing in water and soil really just where in the most advanced testing is done in Japan
and the first degree is what we don't want to see you go you get your soil send it into a lab and
they're going to test for the basics like nitrogen potassium phosphorus all these other things but
then if you like pay for extra money they'll give you like a secondary analysis but they're only
going to be able to identify like another or 30 or 40 minerals right but again there's a lot of stuff
going on in your soil right so then they're not really actually telling you to a specific degree
like what is it right and then the third level is what Japan does and it's as you the you have
to use argon gas it's a very expensive test and we're talking about water now at this point but it
it really comes down to the same thing and so what I've kind of realized through all these different
testings when you really critically think of what they're doing for you and what you're paying for
what I've realized is it's it's just a market that kind of gives people an idea but when you go back
to soil biology the bacteria and the enzymes it kind of like everything we've talked about around
Long minimum Law of Tolerance balancing it out kind of neutralizing certain man-made chemicals
pesticides fungicides that inhibit you know because what we're trying to do is convert these
incomplete chemical reactions back to as close to a form of a sulfated mineral which is dissolves
into US everything dissolves into a salt but if you have too much salt or if you have too much of
one salt specifically it becomes incredibly toxic but if you have an array of salts and minerals and
water right in a in a soil biology then plants and trees can grow healthy you know and so this is why
I personally have never ever done a soil test in now going around 13 years just completely skip it
I've had so many people like should I get a soil analysis you know or like do you have it already
yeah okay let me take a look at it just and I kind of just asked for it to make them feel good
so that because they spent money on it you know and it's it's something that they're holding as
validation of some level right and I just asked for it I look at it but really just the key is
clean water balance trace minerals just balance it all out the trace minerals are always lacking
why is because they're so small they literally flow through your soil and run off right they
said that's really why that's why they're lacking it's been so so tiny and all the fibrous hairs are
gone because the bacteria and the fungi have went dormant because of all the toxins right
so and I talk about all the time right it's about neutralizing the problem and allowing the bacteria
and the fungi to come back in so that they can even just hold the small minerals we can create
a fibrous environment and never worrying about the the soil amendments really like of course you're
going to want to add back in over time but you just don't worry about what's totally in your soil
it becomes a forgotten thought because you see things right you see trees grow out of literally
rocks like how is that possible you know what I mean you see things grow out of sand out of so
many different things so yeah I would just stay away from the soil analysis and spending money
in that direction any level it's better to fall back into the biology than the testing [Music]
you know the plant can't control the light but it's talking to you and saying hey you know this
is what's going on if you learn to just be very in tune to that as the plant's growing you'll know