Plant Tissue Testing Explained with Bryant Mason

Welcome to Part 2 of a recent interview host Jennie Love had with guest Bryant Mason of Soil Doctor Consulting.

If you haven't already listened to Episdoe 37 or Episode 29, stop this one now and go back to listen to those first.  In this segment, Bryant helps listeners understand what plant tissue testing is and why it is so valuable for farmers to do.  Bryant walks us through a tissue test for stock grown at Jennie's farm, explaining how to read the various nutrient values and make decisions for future fertilization.  

If you'd like to see the tissue test result sheet Bryant and Jennie discuss in this episode, along with other test results from Jennie's crops, join the Regenerative Flower Farmers Network (RFFN) to have a look at those.

Two labs that Jennie has used for tissue testing flower crops are: 

• Logan  Labs
• Waypoint Analytical 

At the end of this conversation, we also get a nice list of resources listeners can use to increase their knowledge of organic and regenerative growing.  Here are links to most of those: 

• The Nature and Properties of Soils textbook
• The Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants textbook
• Nigel Palmer's book The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments
• Nigel Palmer's interview on this podcast
• Bryan O' Hara's book No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture
• Shaping Fire podcast
• Regenerative Agriculture podcast
• ATTRA Voices from the Field podcast
• Priming for Production podcast
• Tractor Time podcast
• Field Lab Earth podcast
• Cannibas Cultivation and Science podcast
• Decode 6 podcast
• No-Till Growers podcast

This conversation with Bryant was broken into two episodes since it was full of so much information. So be sure to go back and listen to the first half in Episode 37.  

Follow Bryant on Instagram @soil_doctor.  

Bryant has developed an easy online tool to help you directly to interpret your soil tests and choose natural amendments accordingly.  Click here to learn more.  

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Past episodes for further listening include:

Episdoe 29: Nutrient Balancing in Living Soils with Bryan Mason

Episode 34: Why I Love to Spray at My Farm: Boosting the Phyllosphere

Episode 17: Natural Inputs with Nigel Palmer

Episode 15: Korean Natural Farming and JADAM in Flower Farming with Tony Gaetz of Bare Mountain Farm

 

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