Soil testing experience

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Hello all, just wondering how your soil testing experiences are going?

I have found some very compacted earth where I have had to use a hoe and pitch fork. I prefer to use a pitch fork with about 10-12 teeth in order to avoid killing worms and other macro organisms. I noticed that when I dug the 30x30x30 with a shovel or even the small garden hand trowel, I still killed some of the very few worms found or that it was very difficult to make the whole with that small tool in compacted soils.

Also noticed that if I left the soil to the side for a minute or two I was able to find more biology than if I kept moving it around all the time.

Any interesting findings for you?

Best regards,

Armando (Portugal)

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Hola! Pues a mí me ha llamado mucho la atención lo seca que está la tierra, muy dura y seca y la verdad, sólo un vecino que lleva años con huerta tiene un pH alcalino y una tierra muy sueltita, los demás estamos en ello, a base de echar compost y compost y compost