Plantworks Ltd Empathy Lawn Feed Liquid Seaweed Stimulant 1L

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It might seem like a lot of extra effort, to have to apply a treatment to your garden every few months to keep the grass looking nice. If you’re looking for a fertiliser with an environmental conscience, the Plantworks Ltd Empathy Lawn Feed is a great example of organic lawn feed. This company is refreshingly focused on both caring for the planet and tending your lawn in equal measure.

The bio-active compounds in seaweed boost the lawn's natural defences, making it more resistant to certain diseases and pathogens. A 7kg bag provides 200m² of lawn coverage, and it should be applied once between April and September when the weeds are actively growing, with a maximum of two applications per year and a gap of at least three months between. As it turns out, seaweed is recognized and used as a natural biostimulant in turfgrass and agricultural management. It’s dense with beneficial plant growth-supporting nutrients and micronutrients. The Proctors Autumn & Winter Lawn Feed is intended for use post-summer, to protect and nourish lawns, particularly as winter looms, whilst simultaneously helping kill and control moss. It’s a product that helps combat problems before they arise, or get worse, over winter. In modern fertilizer use, liquid seaweed makes a highly efficient base for the nutrition of a wide variety of plants. This is because it can be safely mixed with most of the commonly used sources of nitrogen, phosphate and pottassium, along with supplements like iron. The seaweed stimulates the soil bacteria which, in turn, helps to release much of the nutrient content. In many cases these nutrients are fixed in the soil and not available to plants, whether you’re feeding grass, tomatoes, vegetables or flowers. Seaweed combats this, helping you to make the most of any nutrients being applied, and reducing the quantity required for healthy growth.The bottle is made from 100% sea plastic, and I liked the built-in measuring chamber which was easy to use (I just squeezed the bottle until the chamber was full). It is important to use this correctly as you are looking to improve and maintain a greater degree of beneficial organic, bacterial and fungal activity in the soil and lawn. This means a single dose won't do much good. The second dose builds on the first dose perhaps bringing about three times the improvement of the first dose. The increasing improvement continues throughoutthe growing season to achieve a better healthier lawn. This continuously improving scenario is not a lot different from things we may do to improve out health and fitness from diets to exercise routines. Doing either of these for a few days or weeks is not going to make much difference but over the long-term massive benefits can be achieved! Of course changing the soil doesn’t happen straight away, but when building a new lawn adding it in will help tremendously for the health of the lawn for the future. How is seaweed applied to lawns? Please see youtube video linked at the bottom of the article to see more clearly how to calculate measurements of your lawn.

It’s extremely powerful so be sure to use it with caution and experiment with the lowest measurement first: use 1 to 2 grams per litre of water per square metre of lawn and apply with a sprayer for better coverage. For example, the Miracle-Gro Water Soluble Lawn Food will cover up to 400 m², whilst the Vitax Green Up Liquid Lawn Feed will cover 200 m², and the EverGreen Miracle-Gro Complete 4-in-1 Food 100 m². To really understand the potential benefits of seaweed, you have to understand its role as a biostimulant.The benefits of using seaweed on plants was first discovered many years ago by farmers living and working beside the sea. They would harvest the seaweed from the shore as it was washed in by storms, then spread it on the land prior to planting the crops. The benefits were particularly noticeable on potatoes, always susceptible to disease, as the fields treated with the seaweed consistantly produced better crops with very clean skins. Unique double action.Lawn Magic does two jobs in one. It greens the grass and strengthens the roots. Neither children nor pets need to be kept off the grass after using this fertiliser, meaning there’s no inconvenience of having to choose a suitable time when they’re not around, and it can be applied easily using fertiliser trollies or hand shakers. Unlike some other fertilisers, there is also no odour emitted by these granules, creating a more pleasant garden atmosphere. For hose ends we need to work out what the flow rate of water is so we can work out how long to spray the hose end sprayer for. Many popular fertilisers (such as Tomorite) are now available with added seaweed extract, so you can add the purportedbenefits of seaweed at the same time as a fertiliser application.