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Plant Grow System - 4 Steps to Healthier Plants
 
 

Golf Course and Turf Management



Maintain a Healthy Course

The soil supporting today's average golf course green is lacking sufficient microbial activity to promote healthy turf growth. This is due primarily to an over reliance on pesticides to control disease and insect infestation. These synthetic chemicals also destroy non-target organisms, namely the essential bacteria and fungi found in healthy soil.

Treat Your Soil

Beneficial micro-organisms are necessary to promote healthy, vigorous plant growth. When microbial populations are depleted the turf system becomes stressed giving rise to a myriad of problems.
In response to this problem, two microbial products, Trich M, were developed.

These proprietary microbial inoculates were formulated to increase the active biomass in soil. Trich M also provides a support system for its microbes to help ensure their survival in harsh soil conditions. This system includes natural plant extracts and vitamins, which provide the essential nutrients necessary to promote and sustain healthy microbial populations in the soil.

Trich M with its 47 strains of beneficial soil microbes and natural plant extracts provides the turf system with:

  • The necessary components to promote healthy plant growth
  • Increase nutrient availability
  • Facilitate nutrient absorption
  • Promote root growth and formation
  • While reducing the likelihood of turf disease

Trich M contains an additional 2 strains of beneficial soil fungi (Trichoderma) to enhance disease suppression.

Disease suppression is achieved through a process known as competitive exclusion. The beneficial microbes contained in P.G.A. and P.G.A. Plus preemptively consume the food source for such pathogenic fungi as fusarium, rhizactonia, pythium and phytopthora. Many of the microbes also have the capacity to produce antibiotics, which inhibit protein synthesis in pathogenic fungi resulting in their expiration

Stress Defence

In golf maintenance, stress is caused by many factors of which most are unavoidable. When the heat of summer is finally over, many superintendents breathe a sigh of relief. Marine Gro is a powerful combination of fish and kelp, which can help in your arsenal of stress defense. It is natural and loaded with what your greens and tees need to fend off stress. A healthy plant is less likely to succumb to many stress factors including disease, pests, heat, mowing height or rolling.

Advantages:

  • Efficient utilization of NPK fertilizers
  • Environmentally friendly
  • Effective under a wide range of conditions
  • Promotes a healthy substem for turf
  • Slow release growth
  • No surges
  • Contains a broad spectrum of nutrients
  • Reduces stress and enhances root growth

Specific Applications Golf course greens and tees:

  • Apply 6 ounces per 1,000 square ft. monthly preferably split into weekly or bi-weekly applications.
  • On sand based greens: weekly or bi-weekly applications are important.
  • Fairways: Use 3 oz. per 1,000 square ft. or one gallon per acre on a monthly basis increasing dosage when turf is under stress.
  • New seedings: Apply 3-6 oz. per 1000 square ft. when germination begins then continue on regular program.
  • Lawn care: Use one gallon per acre 2-4 times a year.

Pest Management - Neem + Natural Insecticidal

A new natural insecticidal soap for professional turf, landscape, horticultural, agricultural, home and garden use. An EPA registered natural alternative to toxic chemical insecticides Highly effective on a wide range of soft bodied insect pests.

Made from extracts of Indian Neem Tree, seed oil Works as a contact and as a repellent. K+Neem Insecticidal soaps are an environmentally sound delivery system for compounds with insecticidal properties.

The spray solution allows for more efficient contact with insects, their eggs, larvae, and pupae, and the plant itself. As a contact, it biodegrades the exoskeleton of the insect and causes disruption of sensory and physiological functions, leading to expiration.

As a repellent for foliage feeders K+Neem Insecticidal Soap® repels the insect by making plants unpalatable. These multiple modes of action help make K+Neem Insecticidal Soap® not only safer than toxic chemicals, but more effective for controlling a wide range of pests

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