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Preparation for Aerated Compost Tea
Application
Mow and water your yard a day or two before your
compost tea application
No need to rake leaves, they will make a great
first meal for your newly arriving soil biology
Tips for a Healthy
Lawn
Water less often, but for a longer
durations. This encourages plants to develop deep roots.
Don't bag your grass clippings, they will serve
as mulch and a natural fertilizer.
Fertilize only with organic fertilizers,
synthetic fertilizers will often kill the biology that is working so hard
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Aerated Compost Tea Program
In order to achieve the benefits of adding compost
tea to your landscape it is important to implement a program designed to
offer continuous renewal and food for the organisms Our programs
consists of four quarterly applications and spring organic fertilization.
Why do I need a program?
In Texas we live on a relatively thin soil layer
underlain by massive limestone. The original landscape here in Central
Texas is quite different that what we are trying to achieve in our
gardens. Whereas, a native landscape would haves some grasses, Mesquite Trees,
Oak trees, most of us desire a more lush and varied landscapes. In order
to achieve this we must condition the soil to support the more diverse and
unique plants. Thus we add additional biology to the landscape, undoing
the negative effects of development and pushing our landscape forward to an even more
fertile environment than before.
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program: Fortify and Feed
Fortify: Aerated Compost Tea adds life to your landscape, by
extracting the beneficial organism from compost and adding them to
you soil and foliar (leaf) surfaces. They both protect the
plant from disease and pests and provide nutrients to the plants.
However, the organisms are sensitive to chemicals and pollution.
Chlorinated water, automobile pollution, pesticides, herbicides
and heavy foot traffic are among the most common damaging factors.
In order to maintain and, over time, significantly increase the
population of the biology it is important to periodically fortify
the current biology with
additional organisms.
Feed: Each application of compost
tea supplies enough food to last the organisms at least three months.
The foods include humic acid and simple sugars. By applying the tea
quarterly the microorganisms will have a consistent food supply, allowing
them to multiply and more efficiently cycle the nutrients in your
landscape. In addition we offer a Spring Application of Hydrolisized
Fish. This high nitrogen liquid provides a boost to you plants when
they are in a period of heavy growth.
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