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BuildASoil Complete - Most Comprehensive Logan Labs Testing
Rated 4.3 out of 5
Regular price
$115.00
Unit price
BuildASoil Complete - Most Comprehensive Logan Labs Testing is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Quality First
Quality First
BuildASoil is committed to sourcing the highest quality ingredients you can trust. over 10,000 Five Star Reviews and over a decade in business
Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
Shipping Policy
Shipping is expensive, and it gets more expensive almost every year. We are not going to pretend otherwise. What we can tell you is that we work hard to find the most reliable and affordable way to get your order to you, and we pass along free shipping wherever it makes sense.
Free shipping on any order with two or more items. The one exception is bulk items, meaning the large or heavy products that have to move by freight or oversized parcel. If your cart qualifies, free shipping is applied automatically at checkout.
Why two items and not a dollar amount?
Most stores set free shipping at a dollar threshold. That works when you sell light things like clothing. We don't. We ship soil, amendments, and heavy real goods that are expensive and awkward to move, so a dollar minimum doesn't reflect what shipping actually costs us.
We are a small business with no outside financial backing, and we are not Amazon. We manufacture, pack, and ship everything in house so we can control quality, which means real people picking, boxing, taping, and labeling every order, and that means real jobs. When we ship a single item for free, the only way to cover it is to raise prices across the board, and we would rather not do that. Asking for two or more items on free orders lets us keep prices lower for everyone and keep shipping sustainable. We hate high shipping costs as much as you do, and this is the fairest way we have found to keep them down.
Delivery estimates
Every product page shows an estimated delivery window based on current fulfillment and carrier schedules, so you know what to expect before you buy.
Shipping Options
BuildASoil Shipping
Free
Free on eligible orders with two or more items. We select the carrier and method.
Standard Shipping
Paid
Standard ground service.
Standard Shipping: Rushed Out the Door
Paid, slightly more
Same standard transit, but we push it out the door the same day when we can.
Get It Fast
Higher
Prioritized fulfillment with faster transit.
Overnight It
Highest
The fastest option we offer.
Pickup at Factory Store
Free
Bring your order confirmation and a valid ID.
FedEx Freight (Economy)
Quoted
For large or heavy orders.
FedEx Freight (Priority)
Quoted
For large or heavy orders, faster transit.
Carriers
We ship with FedEx, UPS, and USPS, and we pick the carrier that gets your order to you reliably at the best cost. We cannot guarantee a specific carrier unless you arrange it with us ahead of time.
PO Boxes
Orders to PO Boxes often cost more and usually do not qualify for free shipping. Use a physical address to avoid delays and added fees.
Outside the Continental US
We ship to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands. Free shipping generally does not apply to large or bulky items going to these destinations, though Hawaii and Alaska have more flexibility depending on carrier policy. Rates are quoted at checkout or on request.
Canada
We ship select items to Canada. Canadian customers need to choose "UPS Standard Shipping to Canada" at checkout so your order clears customs cleanly and you avoid surprise brokerage fees. Orders placed with other methods can be delayed or rejected at the border.
Vendor-Fulfilled Items
Some products ship directly from our vendor partners and show their own estimated ship dates on the product page. Questions about these go to support@buildasoil.com.
Freight Shipments
Freight orders arrive on pallets by box truck or semi. We assume you need liftgate service unless you tell us otherwise.
Inspect every freight shipment before you sign. Count the packages and check for damage. Signing the delivery receipt confirms the order arrived complete and undamaged, so note any problem on the receipt before you sign it.
Full Truckloads
Full truckload (FTL) orders are custom quoted after checkout based on your location, order volume, and how the truck will be unloaded.
- Let us know if you have a dock, forklift, or other unloading equipment.
- Tell us if you need liftgate or manual unload service.
- Email support@buildasoil.com ahead of time for an FTL quote.
Order Tracking
We email tracking as soon as your order ships. If it does not arrive, check buildasoil.aftership.com with your order details, or email support@buildasoil.com.
Shipping Protection
This optional add-on at checkout covers your shipment against loss, theft, and damage, and we fast-track those claims for replacement or resolution. Even with protection, photos and documentation help us move carrier claims along faster.
Claims
Send all claims to support@buildasoil.com. We do not process claims by phone.
Include:
- A description of the issue
- Photos or video of the damage, or of missing or incorrect items
- Images of the packaging and labels
Hold onto the packaging and any damaged items until the claim is resolved, since carriers may require an inspection.
Claim deadlines
- Damage or missing items: within 60 days of delivery
- Incorrect products: within 60 days of shipment
- Lost or misdelivered packages: within 60 days of shipment
Once Your Order Leaves Our Facility
We help with every carrier claim we can. But once an order is in the carrier's hands, we cannot control delays, damage, or misdelivery, and the carrier makes the final call on claims.
BuildASoil Complete - Most Comprehensive Logan Labs Testing is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Description
Description
Logan Labs, one complete package
Stop guessing what your soil already has in it
Every test a living soil grower needs to re-amend accurately, in one package, for $115 with prepaid postage to the lab. No configuration to get wrong. No second invoice. You do not need to know anything about soil testing to order it.
Nothing to learn right now
Here is the whole process
Four steps. Two of them are ours, two are yours, and yours add up to about ten minutes and one trip to the carrier.
Step 1
You order
Complete instructions arrive by email, along with a prepaid shipping label and a submission form already filled out with the right tests selected. They come separately from your order confirmation, so check spam if nothing has landed within a day.
Us
Step 2
You pull a sample
Two cups of soil from a few spots in the same bed, into a bag. Our guide shows you exactly where to pull from and why it matters.
You, about ten minutes
Step 3
You drop it off
Sample and form in a box, prepaid label on the outside, hand it to the carrier. That is your entire job done.
You, one trip
Step 4
Your report arrives
About a week at the lab, then the report emails straight to you and to us at the same time. We follow up with free guides for reading it, and you can buy a written interpretation if you would rather have a person do it.
UsYou do not need to understand any of this before you order. Everything below explains what is in the package and why, and it is here for people who want to know. If you would rather just get your soil tested, add it to the cart and read the emails when they come.
What this price covers: the lab work, the postage, the paperwork, and the guides for reading your results. Reading the report is either free with our interpretation tool or a paid add on if you want a person to do it. We keep that separate rather than bundling it, because most growers do not need it.
Want to read ahead? Every guide we send is free and public at our soil test guides page.
Why three tests and not one
Your soil is answering two different questions
Growers usually pick one test, get half an answer, and then make a decision that needed the other half. These are the two questions, and this package covers both.
Question one
What are my plants drinking right now?
The saturated paste measures what is dissolved in the soil water, which is what roots actually take up today. Every potting soil should be read this way. It is the test that tells you whether something is available, not just present.
- Saturated paste analysis
- Nitrate and ammonium nitrogen
- Electrical conductivity
Question two
What is held in reserve, and how much do I add back?
Re-amending by volume is math, and that math runs off your cation exchange capacity. Get the CEC wrong and every amendment number you calculate afterward is wrong with it. The Mehlich 3 and the AA 8.2 together are what make the CEC honest.
- Standard Mehlich 3 soil test
- AA 8.2 ammonium acetate
- Cobalt, molybdenum, selenium, silicon, ENR
The reason we made AA 8.2 mandatory
One wrong calcium number becomes five wrong numbers
If you built your soil with oyster shell flour, or you have top dressed with a liming mineral, there is very likely free calcium sitting in it. Here is what that does to a standard test, and why we no longer sell the standard test on its own.
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Starts here
Free calcium is sitting in the mix
Oyster shell flour is calcium carbonate. It is coarse and it dissolves slowly, so undissolved particles stay in the soil for a long time, especially in a fresh mix or after a recent top dress.
2
The extraction
Mehlich 3 dissolves it and counts it
Mehlich 3 is an acid extractant at roughly pH 2.5. It does not care what your soil pH reads. It dissolves those carbonate particles and reports that calcium as though it had been sitting on an exchange site all along.
3
The knock on
Your CEC inflates, and everything else deflates
CEC is summed from the cations on the report. An inflated calcium figure inflates the whole exchange capacity, so every other base saturation percentage gets divided by a number that is too big and reads lower than it really is.
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What it costs you
You amend against fiction
Potassium looks short when it is not. Magnesium looks short when it is not. You mix in amendments you did not need, at rates calculated from a capacity your soil does not have, and you pay for all of it.
The AA 8.2 is buffered at pH 8.2, so it leaves the free carbonate alone and returns your real exchangeable calcium. Swap that figure in, recalculate the CEC, and the rest of the math holds.
The package
Everything included, nothing to select
Standard Mehlich 3
The full mineral reserve panel. This is the base of every re-amendment calculation.
Extras
Cobalt, molybdenum, ammonium nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, selenium, silicon, electrical conductivity, and estimated nitrogen release.
Saturated paste
What is dissolved and available in the soil water. The test every potting mix should have and the one most growers skip.
AA 8.2
Ammonium acetate buffered at pH 8.2, for true exchangeable calcium and an accurate CEC. Included as standard, not an add on.
Prepaid postage
Your label and your pre-filled Logan Labs submission form arrive by email after you order. You bag the sample and drop it off.
Turnaround
Typically about a week from order to final report, depending on the Logan Labs queue.
One package covers one sample. We are happy to run as many reports as you want, it is simply the same price each time. If you are a commercial operation pulling a lot of samples, you will save real money going direct to Logan Labs, because you can ship every sample in one bag instead of paying our per package price on each. For a home grower with a bed or two, working with us is the simple route.
Buying direct
You can order straight from Logan Labs
They sell every one of these tests on its own, they publish their pricing, and they are genuinely helpful on the phone. Go do your own research over there before you buy from us. We would rather you did.
We charge a little more than the tests cost on their own. That difference covers your prepaid postage to Ohio and a submission form that shows up already filled out with the right tests selected. Once you add a box and postage of your own, the two routes land close together, and what you are really paying us for is not having to learn the lab's ordering system to get a usable answer.
We used to sell this package three different ways and let you assemble it yourself. We stopped, because on a potting soil the cheaper configurations produce confident numbers that are wrong, and we would rather sell one package that gives a real answer than three that give you something to misread.
If your situation calls for a different combination of tests, or you are a professional pulling a lot of samples at once, the lab is the right place to buy it. Not us.
After your report lands
Reading it is a separate job
This package is the lab work. It is not an interpretation, and we sell those separately now so nobody ends up waiting on an answer they did not know they had to buy.
Plenty of growers run their own report through our free tool, which does the same math we run internally. Plenty of others would rather hand it to somebody who reads these every day. Both are fine.
Two ways to read your results
Do it yourself, free. Drop the PDF Logan sends you into our interpretation tool and it returns an amendment plan. Your Complete test comes back with the Mehlich 3 and the AA 8.2 on the same PDF, so it is one file and one upload. No account, and your file never leaves your browser.
Have it read for you. Paid interpretation with amendment recommendations, sold separately. We work with more than one interpreter, so pricing and turnaround depend on who reads it. Current options are listed on their own page.
BuildASoil Rewards
Gold and above, this is on us once a year
Every tier from Gold up includes one complimentary soil test per year. It is not a self serve reward, so just ask us. Email support@buildasoil.com or start a live chat, tell us you would like to use your free soil test, and we will add it to your rewards so you can apply it at checkout.
Not there yet? This order earns points like everything else, and points never expire.
Questions we actually get
Before you order
Do I really need the AA 8.2, or is it an upsell?
If you built your soil with oyster shell flour or any liming mineral, and nearly every living soil recipe does, then yes. Without it your calcium reads high, your CEC reads high, and every amendment rate you calculate from that CEC is wrong. We used to sell it as an optional add on and that was a mistake, because the people skipping it were exactly the people who needed it. Now it is simply in the package.
My soil pH is well under 7. Do I still need it?
Probably, yes. This is the part that trips people up. Mehlich 3 extracts at roughly pH 2.5, so it dissolves carbonate particles regardless of what your bulk soil pH reads. A mix sitting at 6.4 can still have plenty of undissolved oyster shell in it. Soil pH is not a reliable way to rule out free calcium in a potting mix.
Can I test more than one bed with this?
One package covers one sample. We can run as many reports as you like, but each one is the same price, so several beds means several packages. Some growers combine spots from a few beds into one homogeneous sample to keep costs down, which is a fair approach, it just gives you an average instead of a per bed picture. If you are a professional running a lot of samples at once, go direct to Logan Labs. You can put every sample in one bag and ship them together, and you will pay less than you would buying multiple packages from us.
How long does it take?
Typically about a week from your order to the final report. Most of that is the lab's queue, which moves with their workload and is not something we control. If it has been noticeably longer, email us and we will chase it.
Is an interpretation included?
No. This is the lab work only. Interpretation is sold separately so that it has its own turnaround and nobody is left waiting on something they did not realize they had to order. You can also run your own numbers through our free calculator.
Should I just order from Logan Labs myself?
If you are comfortable setting up an account, choosing the right tests, filling in the submission form and paying your own postage, then honestly, go ahead. They publish their pricing and they are good people to deal with. This package exists for growers who want the correct tests selected for them and the shipping handled, not because we are the only way to reach the lab.
Show your work
The lab, the methods, and our own numbers
We ask you to test your soil because we test ours. Everything below is public.
Specifications
Specifications
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Length (in)
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Width (in)
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Height (in)
Questions?
We are here to help and our entire staff knows how to grow. Just reach out via chat, email or even phone. We are passionate about growing and want you to succeed.
Payment & Security
Payment methods
Your payment information is processed securely. We do not store credit card details nor have access to your credit card information.
Based on 13 reviews
77%
of reviewers would recommend this product to a friend
13 Reviews
Reviewed by Nathan
Verified Buyer
I don't recommend this product
Not a quick and simple experience for me
This process was a frustrating experience for me with no added benefits except for having a shipping label provided. If this cost marginally more than purchasing the services on my own then I would not be leaving a review, but it costs about twice as much so I want others to be aware of what you're paying for
-The AA 8.2 test is not optional if you're getting an interpretation. They sent me a second invoice a day after I initially ordered this. I asked for a refund at this point but they pushed back, so I regrettably paid it
-I got spammed with BaS emails between all of the order and shipping notifications and marketing emails and missed that I received sample instructions. I'm talking 20 emails in one week because I made one order
-I had to bug them for an interpretation days after receiving the test results
Since this was my first time getting a soil test and interpretation I was sold on this being the "quick and simple" way. After going through it and learning how to send a sample to Logan Labs and get a separate interpretation, I will definitely be doing that on my own next time. I wish I had done a little extra research to do that from the start
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Reviewed by Loren H.
Verified Buyer
I recommend this product
Quick and easy!
Bit the bullet and did the test. Now to decide if I can figure out the BAS calculator or do I pay Mr Branson for his help?...
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Reviewed by Jesse A.
Verified Buyer
I recommend this product
Super easy
Quick an easy
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Reviewed by david J.
Verified Buyer
About the same
The tests were certainly thorough. For the price, I could have had the same tests done by my local county extension 3 times over. Overall, I'm happy with the results despite paying more than I had to.
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