“Eco-Friendly” Fertilizers Minimizing The Impact On The Environment

Our competitors use the lowest common-denominator fertilizers for cost savings, while Blade Runners thinks about both the customer and the environment

Blade Runners, Inc. is using a new commercial fertilizer product, which is aimed at giving turfgrass only the nutrients they need as they need them, thereby reducing excesses that can run off the property and harm waterways.

• No phosphorus
• Activates the phosphorus naturally found in the soil
• Less product poundage applied equals less runoff materials

Signature Brand fertilizer – Prospect Plus® contains a complete micronutrient package and a natural, sugar-based spreader-sticker for maximum foliar absorption, and is impregnated with a proprietary nutrient solution that has shown a remarkable ability to improve vigor, quality and stress tolerance in turf, trees and ornamentals.

 

• Help turf establish or withstand environmental stresses
• Develop a more fibrous, extensive root system
• Enhance early plant growth and vigor
• Build greater shoot mass
• Increase uptake of soil nutrients and moisture
• Increase photosynthetic activity

Cutting the phosphorus

A newer environmental concern involves phosphorus, a second main nutrient that turfgrass needs for root and cell development.Up until recently, phosphorus was thought to be needed by turfgrass in regular amounts, and so turf fertilizers typically included some in every bag.But environmental scientists recently found that excess phosphorus was a key cause of algae outbreaks that were clogging waterways. In turfgrass, some phosphorus occurs naturally from the breakdown of plants, but some also comes from the phosphorus applied to turfgrass in bagged fertilizer. Soil tests found that most turfgrass already have adequate amounts of phosphorus and that a need for phosphorus is lower than thought – due in part to the fact that phosphorus leaches so slowly through the soil.