Key Organic-Gro™ Benefits

5% MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
A complete and balanced soil consists of 25% water, 25% air, 45% minerals and 5% ORGANIC MATTER. For plants and grasses to thrive, they must receive nourishment from the soil. Beneficial microbes and earthworms can excel at transforming decaying plant matter into a form which can be readily absorbed by plant roots IF these beneficial soil caretakers have a friendly home environment in which to live. Organic matter is their preferred food, having the largest impact on soil fertility. The Organic-Gro™ line of All Natural Fertilizers supplies this happy home for earthworms and microbes.

ALL ORGANIC
It takes 14% organic nutrients to feed plants and 86% other organic materials to feed the beneficial microbes and earthworms in your soil. Microbial and earthworm activity assists in restoring your soil to a healthy ecosystem for the plant by reducing acidity, processing decaying plant matter and improving soil aeration.

WORKS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT
Suitable for application to children's play areas, pet play areas, family outdoor areas, recreational areas and golf courses

NO SPECIAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING OR GLOVES NEEDED TO APPLY ORGANIC-GRO™.

REGENERATES AND REJUVENATES
Application of organic matter helps to build the beneficial properties of the soil, and healthy soil is more disease resistant. Restoring soil to a healthy state will eventually lessen the need for chemical quick fixes. 

DOLLARS DOWN THE DRAIN[*]
Chemical fertilizers commonly call for applications of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in amounts greater than can be immediately assimilated by plants and soil. As much as 35% of nitrogen and 15% to 20% of phosphorus and potassium may leach away with watering or normal rainfall. 

LOWER LAWN CARE COSTS
Just two applications of Organic-Gro™ per year builds up the soil and its properties, thus lowering the need for fertilizers and other quick fixes for years to come. 

EROSION PREVENTION
Organic matter acts as one of the major reservoirs of soil nutrients and water. Holding four times its own weight in water, organic matter makes soil less susceptible to erosion. Data from soil erosion studies proves that increasing a soil's organic matter content by as little as 1% to 3% reduces erosion by as much as one-third to one-fifth. An equivalent loss of organic material results in the reverse, erosion increases.

HELPS REDUCE SALT AND CLAY BUILD UP
Chemical fertilizers use salt and clay bases to carry nutrients. These residues build up in the soil over time, depleting the beneficial microbes and reducing the population of earthworms. The soil eventually reaches its maximum saturation point and is unable to survive the salt content and begins to die. Additional applications of chemical fertilizers do not help your plants at this point. Turf grasses die, plants sicken and die. Even total turf replacement may fail because your base soil has been polluted, i.e. permanently damaged by chemical build up.

TOP DRESS TO REDUCE THATCH
Top-dressing reduces thatch by speeding up the natural decomposition process performed by microorganisms. When chemicals have been applied to a lawn, it needs top-dressing with Organic-Gro™ to rescue the beneficial microorganisms and earthworms. And earthworms are the best defense against thatch. 

FEWER APPLICATIONS
With Organic-Gro™, slow N-P-K release means necessary available (soluble) nutrients are released at first watering, then time released (enzymatically-signaled by the hungry plant) over eight to ten weeks. Slow, steady plant growth means OPTIMUM BEAUTY, with MINIMUM LABOR. Nutrients are non-leaching and will not burn plants or turf when applied as directed.

COMPLETE FERTILIZER
Organic-Gro™ formulations are the best in the world for your lawn and garden. Every application is a WIN/WIN situation, for your lawns, for your plants, for the soil, for the environment, and most importantly, for you and your family.

[*]Further intensification of fertilizer use may also add to widespread problems of soil acidification (99S1) (03N1).

A U. of Wisconsin study found that excess fertilization is rapidly aging agricultural soils. Researchers found soil that aged the equivalent of 5000 years after 30 years of normal fertilizer application. The soil had lost much of its ability to hold calcium, magnesium and potassium because of increased acidity. Acidity occurs when excess nitrogen becomes nitric acid. Only about half of the applied nitrogen is actually taken up by plants. As a result of this acidity, rich northern soils are becoming more like the sandy, less productive soils of the south (99U2).