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Traditional fertilization practices have certainly caused surface and groundwater pollution, but banning the application of certain nutrients is not the answer. The application of both nitrogen and phosphorus can be problematic. Chemical fertilizers that are highly concentrated cause water pollution even when they are applied at the recommended rates when followed too soon by a heavy rain or too much irrigation.

The answer to this dilemma is to start using more sustainable practices and natural products, such as AGGRAND Natural Fertilizers. The recycling of nutrients through the return of grass clippings (using a mulching mower) stimulates soil biological activity and supplies at least two pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet per year without causing any pollution. The application of low levels of AGGRAND Natural Fertilizers that contain fish, kelp and humates, plus adding corn gluten meal, stimulates the proliferation of microbes and earthworms, which readily fix these forms of nutrients before they ever get into lakes, rivers or streams. As the creatures in the soil multiply, they excreted by other organisms, which releases nutrients slowly as plants need them.

A Aggrand dealer wanted to give her mother a special, Living Mother’s Day gift last year. She enlisted her two sons to help landscape and plant flower gardens for her mother. It was a daunting job since the yard had been treated with chemicals for 30 years. We tried to dig up the sod with shovels, No luck, even though she thoroughly soaked the whole front yard the night before to make it easier to dig, She ended up renting a sod cutter.

They started with plants that were bare root or from seed. She added just enough compost to fill the voids where they dug up the sod and to fill in and cover the mounds made out of the dead sod. Three days she saw the AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer working. Everything was a beautiful deep green , half again as big as it was Saturday morning. Leaves were budding out on some plants and tons of blossoms on others. In its very first year, her mother’s new garden continued to produce beautiful flowers and plants throughout the growing season.

Commercial seaweed extracts first appeared on the market in 1950. By the early 1960s they were accepted for feeding of numerous crops because the application of kelp extracts increased the level of dissolved sugars (Brix) in fruit, and demonstrated increased root and bud development over crops to which no kelp was applied. Kelp is integral to the effectiveness of two of the most popular AGGRAND products: the 4-3-3 Natural Fertilizer with Kelp and 0-0-8 Natural Kelp and Sulfate of Potash.

One of the recognized benefits of kelp applications has been increased tolerance to disease. The use of kelp in a foliar program has been shown to strengthen cell walls and to facilitate the absorption of nutrients by plant roots. Specifically, the benefits of kelp are even more apparent when it is applied at particular stages in the growth cycle.