The JT Lab · Open data
What Atlanta soil actually looks like
We have run 99 anonymized soil tests through the UGA lab. It is the clearest picture anyone has of what is under Atlanta lawns — and nobody else in the city has published it.
Test your own soil →The archive · n=99
The headline: the food is already in the ground
Across 99 Atlanta lawns, the macronutrients come back fine and the gap is structure — pH and a small nutrient tank, not fertilizer. Zero calcium deficiencies, zero magnesium, three potassium shortfalls out of 99. Here is the whole dataset.
Distribution · n=99
Where the pH lands
Distribution · n=90
Where the CEC lands
Rating distribution · UGA bands
Where the nutrients land
Share of lawns in each UGA Piedmont / Lawns band (lb/acre) — the food is mostly already there.
Methodology
UGA / Fulton County Extension lab · Mehlich-1 extraction · values in lb/acre · client names and addresses stripped. Bands from UGA's Soil Test Handbook for Georgia (SB-62). Two more reports (12 samples) are still being recovered; the archive will grow to 111.
Where does your lawn fall?
Get your own lawn into the dataset — a real lab test, read out in plain English.
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