PH testing your soil is simple and easy. What is your soil testing ?

thanks for posting that. I would like to soil test my garden for the spring and see where I'm at. I'm guessing right around 6-6.5 based on what has grown successfully in the past, but I plan on transplanting some blueberry bushes into my garden area, along with raspberries, and they'll probably require some amending to change the PH where I intend on planting them.

I have never bothered to test mine, I just plant it where I want and watch it grow. I am surrounded by hemlock,fir,pine,alder trees and they tend to make soil acidic so does scotch broom tons of that crap around here too. If you do the lasagna beds they stay balanced all the time and you don't have to add extra stuff to them. they just do things perfect from the get go.

PHONETOOL said:

From what I've been reading pH levels testing is very important

I tested my pH soil level today it was 6.5 this tester is inexpensive and gets good reviews.

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I was able to start a raspberry seed right now it's about 2 inches it doesn't seem to be growing very fast I'm going to move it to a larger pot hopefully that will do it

Any suggestions?

Meant to quote Tammys post

I wish I had a suggestion for you. I bought 2 yr old raspberry stalks at a garden show. They produced only a handful of berries this spring, but I just planted them in about May, so was surprised I got any at all. by the end of summer, i noticed quite a bit of new growth and now I'm seeing some smaller shoots coming up from the ground around it.

what have you mulched around the raspberries? I used some straw and then we had a bunch of trees cut down and I kept all the sawdust shavings from when the wood was cut and split, so I've used that this winter to mulch around it.