AGGRAND Lawn Care Guide

Natural Fertilizers for Lawn Care

Natural lawn care offers lawn care professionals an environmentally compatible, easy-to-use alternative to chemical fertilizers. Using natural fertilizers improves the beauty and vigor of your clients lawns and may reduce the cost of doing business. Converting your business to natural methods is easy with AGGRAND products.
AGGRAND Natural Fertilizers

The foundation of the AGGRAND natural lawn care program,
AGGRAND Natural Fertilizers will improve your whole operation, from the quality of the lawns you produce to your profitability.natural fertilizers

Prevailing lawn care practices depend on high rates of nitrogen input via dissolved in organic salts, which promotes an excessive leaf development to root reserve ratio.natural fertilizers

Such over-abundant top growth is easy prey for disease causing organisms and insects, while the shallow root system can't store the reserves to cope with drought stress.natural fertilizers Heavy, excessive top growth also leads to an excessive amount of clippings, which outstrip the ability of soil organisms to break down dead materials, leading to thatch build-up, increased disease risk and unsightly appearance. Finally, all that top growth needs frequent mowing.natural fertilizers

Naturally-managed lawns develop deep roots, enabling them to tap soil water reserves and resist drought damage. Chemically-managed lawns develop shallow roots and can be susceptible to drought stress.

Chemical Use	AGGRAND
Excessive nitrogen	Balanced Nitorgen
Rapid leaf growth	Balanced leaf growth
Poor root development	Balanced root development
Frequent mowing	Reduced mowing frequency
Poor stress tolerance	Good stress resistance
Rapid thatch build-up	No thatch build-up
Poor nutrient cycling	Cycles nutrients efficiently
Depletes plant reserves	Increases plant reserves
Favors weed growth	Favors grass growth
Leaches out of soil	Stable in soil
Pollutes nearby waters	No leaching, no pollution
Increases soil salt content	No salt increase

Chemical Use	AGGRAND
Excessive salt	Balanced salt
Reduces nutrient cycling	Efficient nutrient cycling
Decreases organic matter	Increases organic matter
Promotes soil compaction	Increases soil aeration
Damages soil structure	Improves soil structure

Chemical Use	AGGRAND
Excessive nitrogen and salt	Balanced nitrogen and salt
Harm earthworms Harm soil microbes Burn foliage	Allows soils to return to more natural pH, salinity and overall chemical and physical balance, encouraging the return of earthworms and microbes

AGGRAND Natural Fertilizers helps lawns develop deep root systems with proportional top
growth by supplying nitrogen as part of a balance of nutrients. Due to its balanced growth, the natural lawn resists disease, insects and drought much more
successfully than lawns treated with chemical fertilizers.natural fertilizers

Naturally-managed lawns cycle nutrients efficiently, preventing thatch build-up. In fact, recycling thatch actually gives the lawn an extra two pounds
of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet over the growing season – a nice little boost. Finally, natural lawns require less mowing than high-nitrogen lawns.natural fertilizers

• Conventional lawn care practices may cause micronutrient deficiencies and inefficient nitrogen usage. Plants take up nitrogen and micronutrients in a fixed proportion, so when nitrogen is highly abundant, micronutrients should be, too. Most commercial fertilizers don’t supply micronutrients, so lawns may suffer micronutrient deficiencies and often fail to use all the supplied nitrogen.natural fertilizers

• Natural lawns depend on fixation and release of nutrients by soil microbes to regulate soil fertility. Nutrients that are not directly taken up by the grass are stored and released slowly in proportions that promote healthy growth.natural fertilizers

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