Green With Envy offers a full array of fertilizer and soil enhancing products to create a thick, healthy, green lawn.

What is Fertilizer?

Fertilizer is simply food for plants. Many turf fertilizers contain nutrients balanced for different kinds of growth. The rations of these different formulas are indicated on the package in numbers such as 5-10-5, 20-6-6, 10-10-10 or 1-1-1.

The first number means Nitrogen, which makes the grass grow up and green. It helps the grass leaves grow and develop, and adds to the quality and thickness of turf grasses. The second number means phosphorus, which makes the grass grow down. It develops the root system and rhizomes. It helps the plants to develop and mature quickly. The third number means potash, or potassium, which makes the grass grow out and helps it reproduce. It’s designed to help the grass stay healthy and hardy.

Kentucky bluegrass, which is the predominant turf in the metro area typically, requires three to five times more nitrogen than phosphorus and twice as much potassium as phosphorus. Thus a 16-10-10 fertilizer will produce some greening, but the roots and propagation will be the benefactors. On the other hand a 22-6-4 fertilizer will give lots of greening, some root growth, but little propagation.

Green With Envy Fertilizing Program

Contact Green With Envy for all of your fertilizing needs.  We offer one-time as well as seasonal packages and feature both standard and organic based fertilizers and soil enhancers.

While several of the more visible national fertilizing companies recommend a seven step program, we at Green With Envy believe that less is more. When a lawn gets over fertilized, the grass roots are not forced to grow down where they can find additional nutrients. Therefore, your lawn develops shallow roots and will be less tolerant of heat and drought and more prone to disease and weeds.

We offer both organic based, standard synthetic and weed n’ feed fertilizers as well as Revive, an organic soil enhancer.

 

REVIVE!

Revive is a natural organic soil treatment composed of processed plant bi-products, organic and decomposition extracts and fulvo-humates.

Revive has two primary modes of action – first as a wetting agent that improves water penetration into hard-to wet soils. Revive lowers the surface and interfacial tensions of the soil/water relationship and allows the water to spread out and penetrate into the soil. Revive improves plant root-zone moisture and improves soil drainage, not by changing the characteristics of the soil, but by changing the behavior of water.

Secondly, Revive acts as a chelating or sequestering agent in the soil. Essential nutrients (iron, zinc, etc.) can be tied up in the soil. Through this action, they become free and can attach to the root system of a plant thus they become available to the plant when needed. This is why it is recommended to use Revive each time a fertilizer is applied. By using Revive, with proper watering and fertilizing, problems such as poor color and thickness, uneven growth and brown spots in lawns begin to disappear. These two primary actions are also associated with secondary actions that begin the process of increasing water stable soil aggregates, which provide soil aeration and improve the soil’s water-holding capacity.

The DPW (Dehydrated Poultry Waste) Granule contains primary and secondary plant foods plus trace elements not found in conventional chemical wetting agents or fertilizers. These plant foods are much more effectively used by plants due to the chemical wetting and chelating properties of Revive that allow them to penetrate deep into the root zone, without being tied up in the soil.

  • Revive breaks up or loosens hard soils by increasing water penetration and root activity.
  • Early spring applications of Revive help get your plants growing again and turn your lawn dark green
  • When you fertilize is the time to use Revive.
  • Revive helps save water. Use less water. Pay less on your water bill.
  • Revive lets you make better use of water. It penetrates into the soil–less runoff.
  • Revive helps maintain the dark green color and thickness of the lawn, even through summertime heat and stress.

You can test it to see how it works! Take two pieces of cardboard. Put a drop of water on each piece. Now add a drop of Revive to one of the drops of water. Watch it flow into the cardboard. Look what is happening to the untreated piece. Although Revive is primarily regarded as an agent to improve turf health, vigor and appearance, it is equally effective for treating soils around trees and shrubs. Revive works on all types of soils: acid, neutral and alkaline. Revive’s water saving and problem solving ability is evident on hard-to-wet soils or soils that have developed a hydrophobic condition (water repelling). These soils can be identified by:

  • A lawn or spots in a lawn that will not respond to watering.
  • A lawn or spots in a lawn that responds slowly to watering.
  • A lawn that suffers from loss of color or inconsistent plant growth.
  • A lawn that requires frequent watering