Soil Savvy - Soil Test Kit | Understand What Your Lawn or Garden Soil Needs, Not Sure What Fertilizer to Apply | Analysis Provides Complete Nutrient Analysis & Fertilizer Recommendation On Report

This soil test kit was very easy to use, and I had the results back within a week. I won't pretend to be a lawn care expert, so one of the important "features" that I wanted was a fertilizer recommendation based on my personalized results. This is where the Soil Savvy kit provides a great value. You will receive a recommendation in the form of N-P-K @ X pounds/1000 sq ft. This makes it easy to find the correct fertilizer in the store and apply it with appropriate coverage.There is one caveat: The results also tell you what your lawn's PH level is (i.e. whether the soil is acidic or basic), and that the appropriate PH is 6-7 (neutral). The N-P-K fertilizer recommendation is not going to help with your PH level. Instead, you will need to go find a bag of lime at the store and read the back. It will tell you how much lime to apply to raise your PH by X levels. Based on some research, a healthy PH level is necessary for the lawn to be able to absorb the fertilizer you're applying. Therefore, I think the kit should emphasize this fact more than it does. So, even though the Soil Savvy kit doesn't give you a lime recommendation, you'll need to find your lawn's PH in the results (mine was about 5--too low), and figure out on your own how much lime you need to raise it.There are a couple reviewers who seemed surprised that you need to mail the soil sample to the lab, as opposed to getting instant results. This was not an issue for me at all. I got my results back (they will actually e-mail them to you) in 6 days, and the envelope needed to send the sample is prepaid. It's as simple as collecting your soil, placing the container in the envelope with the completed form, and dropping it in any mailbox.I plan on using one of these kits again next year to see what kind of results I get from my efforts this year. Subjectively, my lawn greened up over the course of 3 weeks and looks quite a bit nicer than before I ordered the kit. To me, that justifies the relatively high price of the kit.

The main reason for my purchase of this product was to gain a better understanding of my lawn and to develop an efficient lawn care plan. And yes, I'm another person who was introduced to this by watching the Lawn Care Nut videos on YouTube.Anyways, since purchasing my home in 2014, I've been working to improve the lawn and landscaping since the previous owners did no favors in this category. I improved my cutting and watering schedule as well as started a weed & feed application. Although the lawn made significant improvement, I was still experiencing different conditions in the front and back. It was realized that what I was doing was definitely an improvement....but probably not the most efficient way to go about it. I finally settled on getting 2 of these kits to find out what was going on and improve my lawn care program.I used a soil probe to take multiple samples in both zones. I then mixed and sifted the soil for best composite sample. As expected, the result from the front and back yard were very different. I may not fully understand the history of the yard (since it could be a million different factors) but the results have helped me understand the nutrient levels and to develop an application plan that will lead to a healthier lawn. I have taken the result from this fall and will carry out my plan until I retest next year.In my opinion, this kit is reasonably priced, easy to use and the results come quickly. I believe you get alot of information about your soil and the recommendations are nice to have as a good starting point. Lawn Care Nut recommends this and in his video he recommends this kit because they use a "synthetic root" that tells you what nutrients are available in your soil, not just what is IN your soil.The only other thing I can say is that I'm just a consumer and don't really have any understanding as to the quality or accuracy of the testing that Unibest performs. I'm trusting their analysis and that their information helps me achieve the improvements I'm looking for. I guess time will tell.

I tried out both the "Soil Savvy" ($37) and the "My Soil" ($30) tests at the same time at the same location, and shipped them out on the same day. Both tests use the same collection method and their results provided essentially the same analysis of my desert dirt. (PH, Macronutrients, Micronutrients all matched)..... but "Soil Savvy" was weeks slower to process, so slow that I actually thought my test was lost in the mail at one point.Between the two options, MySoil was cheaper and equally detailed. (actually, in some ways the cheaper Mysoil test was more detailed, since they provided a calculation tool for NPK macronutrients).I definitely suggest saving your money and doing the MySoil test, or, better yet, bringing your dirt to a University extension service which will likely cost less than half as much as these corporations charge.