A Lasting Solution

Mother Nature has been growing things for a long time. Visit a national park and you'll see nature at her best – lush trees and plants, insects, birds, animals, flowers – the works. Look closer and you'll also see soil that is teeming with beneficial life.

When we build houses to live in, we often disrupt the natural life cycle in the soil around us. Often the builder scrapes off the healthy top soil for grading purposes or to sell, leaving just heavy clay or mostly sand.

The key to a healthy, organic and natural landscape is to turn or return the soil around our homes into the rich environment for plants that nature creates. Here’s how:

Penetrate and break apart heavy clay or compacted soil to allow air, water, and plant food to circulate around plant roots.
Coat dense soil particles and add organic matter to keep soil loose and retain water and food in the root zone.
Seed the populations of beneficial micro-life to jump start the web of natural life essential for healthy plant growth.
Ensure that all of the nutrients and minerals that plants need are present in the soil.

If you wait long enough, Nature will do all of this for you – but it will take years. Even with your help, it can take from one to five years for the entire web of life to grow to a self-sustaining level. So how do you enjoy your landscape now while creating this lasting organic and natural oasis around your home? It’s easy:

Use organic and natural soil amendments to help the natural process along.
Add organic plant food, as well as the food needed by the micro-life colonies to foster the growth of both.
Disrupt the soil as little as possible – tilling is actually harmful to the micro-life in your soil.
Diligently add soil amendments at the beginning and end of every growing season to support healthy soil life even during the non-growing season.

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