Organic compost makes the best fertilizer for lawn and landscape because it decomposes into the appropriate chemical balance to nourish the soil. Hansen’s compost has to be properly manufactured in order to kill harmful pathogens and produce nitrogen-rich material for plant growth. Feeding lawn and landscape with organic compost lessens the need for chemicals, strengthens plant roots, conserves water and fixes hard soil.
What is it?
Compost is a soil-like mixture of decomposed remnants of organic matter such as grass, wood, manure and soils. It’s porous and absorbent, which helps hold water and provide nutrients to maximize plant growth.
Beneficial Characteristics:
- Enhances Plant Growth -- The nutrients in compost, such as nitrogen, are at higher levels than regular fertilizer. Compost has lower salt content than fertilizer and doesn’t burn the lawn or plant like fertilizer can.
- Conserves Water -- Compost helps plants grow longer roots with helps conserve water. A person uses 30% less water to water lawn/plants. The compost and mulch helps hold moisture on the plants/lawn.
- Prevents Weeds -- Stronger, healthier plants grow densely, reducing the space for weeds to grow.
- Prevents Disease -- The composting process kills disease and pathogen by “cooking” the material over a long period of time (1-2 years). The composting process enhanced the reproduction of beneficial bacteria, which causes high temperatures and reduces oxygen, thereby killing the viruses, E coli, samenilla, and other harmful bacteria.
- Amends Soil -- Compost amends clay soil by introducing organic matter that clings to the clay particles, splitting them up, and then introduces micro-organisms that, after eating the organic matter, create byproducts which further loosens the clay and helps it breathe.
When Hansen’s Tree Service decided to manufacture organic compost, the company decided to create the perfect recipe to promote plant health. Hansen’s compost is certified by the Seal of Testing Assurance Program, which the only U.S. program that certifies the quality of compost.
SOIL SCIENCE
- Carbon and nitrogen levels in mulch directly affect the microbial energy supply, which give your landscaping its lush green appearance.
- The fight between plants and microbes for nitrogen can greatly influence soil fertility.
- Low nitrogen to carbon ratio causes leeching, which refers to how the microbes in the mulch will rob nutrients from the soil and decrease plant growth.
- Isn’t all compost organic? “Organic” may just mean that everything in the product is natural – that doesn’t mean that its premium blended organic compost.
- Hansen’s premium blended organic compost is STA-certified and resembles the matter on a rich forest floor.
- Hansen’s compost goes through a lengthy composting process where the mulch transforms from a nitrogen-burning material to a nitrogen-emitting product.
- During the composting process, pH levels are closely monitored to make sure it maintains a neutral level.
