Soil pH Tester, Acidity Test Meter, Strips Kit 200 Tests, for Garden Home Lawn Farm Vegetable Yard Compost Outdoor and Indoor Plants, 4.5-9.0 Range

Easy to use and useful for checking soil before adding plants to borders.

Very good tester that can tell what to put where

just as described

It bad but there are better testing kits out there

1. Use warm water, and after mixing, place in fridge. This speeds up the process, but even so, ignore the laughable "wait 30 to 60 minutes" as stated in the instructions: my mixes usually take 48 hours to separate. 2. Use one strip with the water alone: this reading can be used to fine-tune the soil strip reading. For example my water gave 6.5 (0.5 acidic), soil 7.2, so the corrected reading is 7.7. You only have to do the water test once: the result isn't going to change. 3. There are two pads per strip. Usually the resulting colour pair can't be exactly matched to those printed on the container, so match each pad separately and take the average. For example my pads were 6.25 and 6.75, averaging to 6.5

Does what it says on the box

Works ok but did not show potatoes on the chart

Saw a lot of mixed reviews but took a chance on this kit. The reality is that you are trying to measure something quite sensitive and this is science not a cooking recipe. If you take care with the preparation it works fine so for me I got accurate results thus good value. The kit contains everything you need so easy to use.

It worked

Quasi kinderleicht lasst sich so der PH Wert bestimmen. Ob er stimmt kann ich nicht sagen da ich keinen Vergleich habe. Aber ansich funktioniert das Testkit super.

I selected this particular kit for a couple of reasons. First, the pH range is ideal for many uses. Soil testing is one such use. The pH range is 4.5 to 9.0. For soil testing, as with other uses, if the pH is outside of this range you really only need to know that it is much too acidic or much too alkaline. As such, the narrow range is better because you get better resolution and accuracy within the range that matters. The second reason is that the strips have two color blocks. To my way of thinking this is ideal. A single color block is okay but two color blocks are better for more accurate comparison. I don't think you need more than two, and if there are more than two, this is likely to be confusing. I was able to accurately read pH within this range with error less than +/- .25 pH. For soil testing and for many other purposes, this is as much accuracy as you need. Note that ultimately, the only part of this kit that is essential is the strips. You can use any small jar with a lid, and you can order more of the pipettes on Amazon from various sellers, in any quantity. It is nevertheless handy to have the three plastic containers and the six pipettes. To get these conveniences in addition to the 200 text strips, for $14, is just icing on the cake. Bottom line, skip the silly electronic meter, because it isn't going to work nearly as well. In order to get consistent, reasonably accurate measurements from the meter, you are going to have to collect soil samples and put it in a jar with neutral water, the same as with these strips. You will not get useful measurements by just sticking the probe in the ground. And since you are going to have to take samples and put them in jars along with neutral water regardless, why not go the route that is more accurate and less costly? Those meters just don't make sense. They don't work as well, and they cost more money. By the way, you need to prepare a container of neutral water to add to the soil that you put in the small jars. You do that using the strips to learn the pH of your tap water. No reason to buy distilled water, and distilled water might not be neutral anyway. If your tap water is acidic (pH below 7.0) add a little bit of baking soda, starting with a very small pinch. If your tap water is basic (alkaline), you can use vinegar or diluted lemon juice. You can also use some of that stuff they sell at the grocery store that is sold as lemonade, in a dry powder form that you add to water. (Every one of those products that I've ever tasted did not taste anything like lemonade to me, but it is acidic, and it you happen to have any it that you didn't use because of the terrible taste of the stuff, you can use it to prepare neutral water if your tap water is alkaline.)

As exepected

So trial and error, but did as intended or at least got me a close enough reading