how to take a soil sample yourself?

f140

i soil sample every field every five years and get my man who i buy the sprays to come out and do it but I am just wondering how I go about doing it myself. I have a field that I had rape in which I want to get tested for reeseding and dont want to call the man out for just one sample so am just wondering how I do it myself. Field hasnt seen fert since July when it set. So how do i do it. should i did down a bit to get a sample or what?

Bizzum

I sampled a few of our own fields, I got the loan of the sampling tool, it's an inverted pyramid with a nozzle out of it. It only samples plugs of soil about 4".
It's important to get a representative sample of the field, so multiple sites should be sampled. I kept in from the headlands a bit and took multiple samples up through the field.

Damo810

Ye can use anything to get the soil really, but a soil augar is the 'proper' tool for the job.

W pattern in a field, avoid uncommon areas to a field, like areas that have flooding, around thoughts, gateways, hedges etc.

Bag 'em up and send them off.