Starting your turf care program with soil testing is essential to understand your baseline and implement effective strategies. Soil testing provides critical insights into the chemical and physical characteristics of the soil. The soil test results give you information that allow you to tailor product recommendations to improve soil health.
PJC’s Practical Approach to Soil Testing
As our January Blogs covered, PJC’s Healthy Turf Circle emphasizes the importance of soil health for growing specific crop types. Soil testing offers a snapshot of what’s happening beneath the surface. At PJC Organic, we test for:
- pH & buffer pH – Measuring soil acidity or alkalinity.
- Organic Matter – Essential for nutrient and water retention.
- Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) – The soil’s ability to hold and exchange nutrients.
- Base Saturation – Balancing key nutrients like calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
Based on this data, we provide proven product recommendations to address soil conditions quickly and effectively.
PJC’s Proven Products and Services
So, you dutifully take a soil sample, send it off to a lab; and get the results back – then what? If it’s not Greek to you, it may be to your clients. Soil testing is PJC’s most popular support service for landscapers. PJC prides themselves on their comprehensive easy to understand reports. These reports provide landscapers with an objective launching point for organic turf care customers. 
Soil testing provides landscapers and clients with the knowledge and confidence to commit to an organic program. It ensures that every product application and cultural practice is based on data, maximizing the program’s success. Moreover, our soil test report cards provide a comparison after 3 years for your client. This shows how much the soil has improved and allows you an opportunity to rebid the program they are on.
Contact us today and give your organic program the best chance for success!
