Why you should consider going natural?
Natural fertilizers supply the important plant nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (N-P-K), which help lawns and plants create rich color and deep roots. In addition, N-P-K promote vigorous growth, which improves disease and stress resistance.
Naturally managed lawns cycle nutrients efficiently, which helps prevent a buildup of thatch—an accumulation at the soil surface of dead, but undecomposed, stems and leaves. Importantly, grass clippings DO NOT contribute to thatch—in fact, cycling grass clippings can annually provide a lawn with as much as two pounds of additional nitrogen per thousand square feet; a nice boost of free nutrients.1
The most important goal of any soil fertility program is the stimulation of the natural cycles that release nutrients for plant uptake. Ninety percent of the needed nitrogen for plant growth is converted from atmospheric nitrogen (78% nitrogen) by bacteria into nitrates through the natural cycle of nitrification. Natural fertilizers and water applied in the right combination
along with the return of grass clippings provide the nutrients needed to support proliferation of these bacteria. The nourished bacteria rapidly process the nutrients making them available for healthy lawn growth.
Natural fertilizers tend to release nutrients more slowly than chemical fertilizers. In addition, they don’t contain the high concentrations of nitrogen that are contained in most chemical fertilizers. High nitrogen concentrations in the soil can damage the biological community and are proven to contribute to water pollution by leaching out of the soil into the ground and surface water2. By supplying low levels of nitrogen and other nutrients directly to the lawn and indirectly through feeding the soil biological community, the grass is fed continuously without causing water pollution3.
Some conventional, manufactured-chemical fertilizers supply nitrogen in the form of chemical salts. This form of manufactured-chemical nitrogen dissolves quickly to provide a rapid nitrogen release. Often, a quick nitrogen
release can encourage weed growth. Lawn grasses respond to a nitrogen ‘spike’ by producing excessive top growth in lieu of laying in stores of carbohydrates. Lawns with poor carbohydrate reserves often go dormant during drought or other stressful times3.
Literature cited:
1. Frank Rossi, Ph.D. 1995. Green Thumb Project.
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison,
Wisconsin.
2. William R. Jackson, Ph.D. 1993. Organic Soil
Conditioning (pp. 401-425). Jackson Research
Center, Evergreen, Colorado.
3. Warren Schultz, 1989. The Chemical-Free Lawn
(pp. 67-83). Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
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AGGrand Gardening Guide
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