[Market-farming] pH testers

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Mon May 12 14:47:08 EDT 2008


On May 12, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Richard Robinson wrote:

>  On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:36:55 -0400, Richard Robinson wrote:
>>  What do you all recommend for pH testing? Hand-held meters? 
>> colorimetric
>>  solutions? sending off to a lab? I like the immediacy and simplicity 
>> of a
>>  meter, but wonder if I am getting the accuracy I hope for.
>
> Hearing no replies...
>
> Does nobody test pH? Or does no one like the method they use? ;)
>
Maybe nobody has tried all three on the same field, and therefore 
nobody has comparisons?

I have mine done at a lab; but don't know which meters, if any, are 
equally accurate. I'm having other tests done by the lab, in any case, 
so the pH comes along for the ride.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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