What do you all like in the way of an electronic garden soil moisture / PH / sunlight meter? (Actually, I don’t really need a light meter.) This one is cheap, but apparently the tips of the probes break off easily!
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Moisture-Light-and-PH-Meter/999989626
Reviews online of this and similar devices are all over the place.
This being a Friday, hopefully a few people are still on this thread?
Thanks in advance!
I’ll close this tab when the next thread comes out this Saturday :~)
I don’t have an answer because I don’t have any of those things but the way I shop for gadgets is to search amazon and not only go by how many stars in the ratings but read the reviews which will give more insight. Then I go find it somewhere else, often cheaper and sometimes direct from the company’s website. Sometimes I’ll find it on ebay and when I do that, I check the seller’s location and try to make sure the people in that area are likely conservative.
I’m not a, ‘gadget girl’ myself. Sticking my finger under the mulch and into the soil tells me all I need to know about soil moisture.
I also don’t get wrapped around the axle when it comes to the nutritional content of the soil in my raised beds. As long as it is loose and friable, I can grown anything in any of them just by fertilizing properly for each type of veggie, herb or flower.
That said, it’s Year Three, so next spring every bed is getting a top dressing of homemade compost! :)
The soil just gives your plants a place to live. It’s up to the Gardener to feed them properly and make sure they’re planted in the proper place for their light requirements and to get that inch of water a week that in-ground plantings need.
Just my opinion...and I used to SELL all of those gadgets to people for a living, LOL!
Actually, what I said above was my forte. And customers appreciated the honesty. We were always ahead in soil amendments, bagged compost and fertilizer sales when compared to our other stores. ;)