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Two Holy Grails plus two more...
Over the past year we have made two really big discoveries and recently made another two. The first two, I call the Two Holy Grails, they were the two things I wanted to prove right away when we started our program. These were Nitrogen fixation and improved water carrying capacity. After a soil test late last year we proved that we increased our soil Nitrogen, specifically Nitrate without applying any over an entire year. We pulled a report with over 70lbs/ac, more than double what is normal! This was due to and only possible with nitrogen fixing bacteria. The second Grail was the ability to go 10 days and then two weeks in 90° heat without watering. We achieved this with very minor stress and then when we watered the lawn bounced right back immediately, a sign of an efficient soil! Our method of watering also led to another discovery, that sallow watering oxidizes carbon in the soil. This is basically shooting yourself in the foot with your water bill. The final discovery was that we are in essence building a humus generating engine. Humus is the currency of the soil, it is the energy of the soil and is also what enables water retention. This is mandatory for all lawns, to build humus in the soil. Without it we are just wasting our time.
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