Soil, potting soil, growing media and growing media constituents

The horticultural laboratory offers professional horticultural companies, suppliers, traders and local councils a wide range of tests and analyses. The comprehensive services offered have been extended and improved over the years to meet our customers' needs.

Timely and reliable: LUFA Nord-West Horticultural Laboratory in Oldenburg, Germany.
Soils and growing media and their components (compost, peat, perlite, etc.) can be put through the following tests and analyses:
chemical parameters:

• ph-values and salt levels
• main and trace nutrients
• total content, heavy metals, pollutants
• cation-exchange capacity (Mehlich method)
• carbonate content

physical parameters:

• peat constituents (degree of decomposition)
• pores volume, water capacity, air capacity
• water recharge available for plants, grain size analysis, peat fibre content
• determining fill quantities (in accordance with DIN EN 12580)

biological parameters:

• plant/crop response (tests for seedlings and sprouts)
• seed/grain germination potential and growth testing (weed testing)
• peat (determining self-heating)

If you have any questions or would like us to make you an offer, please do not hesitate to contact us. If necessary, we also put tailor-made test packages together for our customers.