The following information on our base products explains the technology we chose, and the benefit to your environment. We hope you will find useful, educational, and fun.

Understanding Plant Health

Plants have need for adequate water, nutrient, sunlight and soils populated with beneficial microbes. If these needs are not met, plants get weak and cannot defend against drought,  environmental stress and pest infestations.  90 percent of all insect and disease problems encountered by plants can be attributed to deficiencies in the basic growing needs of plants. As with people, when plants are strong and healthy, their own potent natural immune system can resist most stress related problems.

Mycorrhizal Fungi

Known as Nature’s Stress Manager, this family of beneficial fungi live in and around the roots of 95% of the earth's plants, serving as a secondary root system, extending themselves far out into the soil.

Mycorrhizae extract mineral elements and water from soil for their host plant, and live off the plant's sugars. Trees and plants with thriving "mycorrhizal roots" systems are better able to survive and thrive in stressful man made environments.

Beneficial Soil Microbes and bacteria

Beneficial bacteria, known as microbes, promote healthy plant growth and protect plant root systems from soil borne diseases. While common in natural forest settings, their populations are very low or absent in nursery potting soils, urban environments and disturbed manmade landscapes.

These Beneficial Bacteria help make essential soil mineral elements available to the plant, decompose organic matter and improve physical properties of the soil. Over time, trees, flowers and lawns with an abundance of microbial bacteria live longer, grow profusely and need less chemical treatment and fertilization.

Organic and Natural-Based Fertilizers

Fertilizers provide additional supplies of nutrients for plants. Without a strong soil profile of microbial bacteria and a suitable pH factor, fertilizers can leach and pollute aquifers. Fertilizers provide a balanced nutrient ration to provide frequent application for plant color and growth. Organic fertilizer bases utilize microbes from protein meal, fish emulsion, blood and bone meal, sludge or poultry manure as organic additions for soil health. The value is improved soil structure, additional microbe populations, and lower inputs of nitrogen and phosphorous.  More nutrient value is utilized properly, providing better color over a longer period and slow, manageable growth and root development.

Soil pH Minerals

Applications of Lime, sulfur, or gypsum provide minor nutrients to the soil while correcting the pH of the soil.  This correction of pH is essential to assist the soil to provide all available nutrients to the plant. Each plant survives best in a soil pH similar to its native preference; an optimum soil pH yields optimum growth.

These pictures demonstrate the success we have had utilizing our natural products in a variety of situations

These palms were treated after suffering storm damage

This very grand live oak was treated during construction to ensure its survival