I was just reading an article in Irrigation and Green Industry online magazine about St.Johns County Florida putting restrictions on irrigation and fertilizer applications due to excessive nutrients moving into bodies of water in the area. It seems as though they would begin looking at aerating and topdressing lawns with compost which would solve two […]

I just read an article which you can find at the following link: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20100615/NEWS01/6150330/1002/NEWS about the Department of Environmental Conservation in New York encouraging a more organic approach to lawn care. This is a trend that has been moving south from Canada through New England and now into New York. It seems folks are waking […]

As spring approaches we begin to see the early flowers poking their pretty heads up and it makes us realize that yard work is in order. We usually begin about now in Pennsylvania cleaning out the beds and putting on some Organic Fertilizer. Next is getting the lawn ready. As it warms up we will […]

I read an article that came out of a New Zealand paper “Otago Daily Times” on the renonvations they did years ago to a club and racetrack. I love the way they write here it is; “The re-turfing and topdressing of the lawn has been rewarded by the appearance of a generous growth of grass, […]

Earth & Turf Products LLC has been developing Compost Spreaders since 1997. The main mission of Earth & Turf is to improve our soils to ensure not only healthier lawns and stronger turf but also to reduce run off and conserve water. We believe spreading compost helps achieve those goals in addition to aiding in […]

I just read in the Kiplinger Letter a clip about efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. They say there will be regulations put in place in 2010. One of the issues is pollutants from ground water run off. Earth & Turf Products has been talking about this for some time now. The building contractors […]

I just got done reading an article about new technology to improve irrigation practices. It was amazing to me that there was no mention of having a good permeable soil with organic matter in it to retain the water. If a lawn or turf area has poor soil to start with you must use more […]

Organic lawns are lawns that the grass grows because of a healthy soil base not because it has been treated with tons of chemicals. In organic lawns there are thousands upon thousands of workers making sure the soil nutrients are available. These workers a come in the form of beneficial microbes, fungi, earth worms and […]

Core aeration combined with topdressing with compost in soils like clay and sand can really improve the soil and the turf quality. An article on www.iabolish.com recently spoke of the tremendous benefits of core aeration on clay soils in the Houston area to help open up the hard soil to improve drainage problems, get needed […]

An old friend who has been in the composting business for a number of years reminded me that there are a number of sites available to help people build proper compost piles. He said anyone can go on line and do a search for ”compost recipe calculator” and it will bring up several sites with […]