Certain foods or other items just go together. Vanilla ice
cream and pecan pie (hot apple pie, hot brownies, hot chocolate chip cookies…)
and a topping of whipped cream go well together. Wines with certain foods or
champagne with dessert are common pairings. Oysters, beer and Bowen’s Island
are three things that go together well (Rose Society Oyster Roast April 13).
March Madness Basketball and chicken wings go great together.
I’m sure you get the idea. In landscaping and pest control
there are some products that do much better when paired with another product or
two.
Right now as the lawn, shrubs, and trees are coming out of
dormancy, a combination of SeaHume, Cotton Burr Compost (or Flower Amendment)
and Black Castings will get your yard off to a healthy start. These products
alone will do great things for your grass; however, if you combine them, look
out. Some people will use them across their whole yard, others will target weak
plants, weak turf, just their front yard or their favorite tree or plant. With
all the cold damage to the different plants, turf and trees, this combination should
be a good jump start for your plants, trees and grass this Spring.
SeaHume is a combination product of its own. Seaweed and
humic acid are two great products that go great together. The Seaweed is full
of minor nutrients, amino acids, gibberellins, and many other plant nutrients.
The Seaweed also feeds the microorganisms in the soil, helps the plant grow
deep roots. Deep roots help with compaction, drought tolerance, wear tolerance
and they give the plant the ability to gather more nutrients because the roots
cover more area. The humic acid in SeaHume helps create a rich, fertile, soil
structure by modifying physical and chemical properties of the soil. Humic acid
helps root growth and makes nutrients that are tied up in the soil available to
the plant.
Cotton Burr Compost is very high in nutrition (some other
compost are good filler but add little nutritional value). Plants and turf love
it. Cotton Burr Compost provides a great ‘hotel’ for microorganisms in the
soil. One of the biggest benefits of Cotton Burr Compost is that it lasts up to
2 years in the soil. Most other organic amendments are decomposed in 30 days or
so depending on the microorganisms in the soil.
Black Castings are Mother Nature’s purest form of natural
organic slow release plant food produced by earthworms. Black Castings are full
of beneficial microbial populations and the food to support good soil biology.
They enhance plant growth and stress recovery (wear, insect, disease, cold
damage). Black Castings will make fertilizer work better and in many cases you
can reduce the amount of fertilizer applied.
Try this cocktail, I think you and your plants and your
grass will love it!!
