Healthly, living plants through healthy, living soils

Sustainable IS attainable!

What is Liquid Organics?

We start with vats of good pure water (at ambient temperature), some of the best worm castings in the Pacific Northwest, and slowly matured humus from Alaska that is thousands of years old! These products contain thousands of species of beneficial microorganisms, bacteria and fungi, nematodes and protozoa that are necessary for soil biology. We also include foods like: sea kelp, molasses and fulvic acid (a cancer fighting agent). At this point we add oxygen for 30 hours, helping the organisms to multiply.

But, we don't stop here... we also work with Dr. Michael Holmes, the leader in Biofertility. Dr. Holmes' biotechnology contains 'true' plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria that increase plant-available nutrients, combat fungal root disease and increase water uptake during stress - resulting in a qualitative improvement in plant vigor, leaf size, green appearance and root growth. 

Safe and Natural   

The Lawn Jockey believes plant health is directly related to the health of your soil. When your soil is healthy, your plants are healthy and your loved ones are healthy. As a five-star EnviroStars Certified Business and recipient of the 2002 Kitsap County Earth Day Award for Best Hazardous Waste Program -we do not generate any hazardous wastes.

þ    Liquid Organics is  non-toxic to adults, teens, children, pets, wildlife, fish, the environment and/or the water we drink!

þ    Our Liquid Organics and organic fertilizers allow you, your kids and your pets to play on the yard immediately after we have left. Now, that is SAFE!

Micro Nutrient Test

    We know not all soils are the same. The best way to build a 'road map' to a successful program is to have us do a comprehensive Soil Analysis Report. This report will assist us in creating the proper program specific to your soil and plant needs. Not unlike tuning in your car radio.

Frequently Asked Questions

                 
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?

Benefits include improved soil structure, retention of nutrients, cycling of nutrients into plant available forms, and reduced plant stress. 

Liquid Organics also breaks down compacted soils with repeated use, letting roots grow into the soil more easily, allowing them to find more nutrients, and letting air into the soil so conditions are not right for diseases to grow, or for toxic metabolites of anaerobic organisms to build up. All plants will gain health and vitality with continued use.

Liquid Organicsputs the micro-biology back into the soil that we have removed because of our over-development and chemical application practices. This biology has co-evolved with plants for billions of years and is critical for plants to function within their environment.

When applied to the foliage of plants, Liquid Organics covers the plant surfaces and prevents harmful material from reaching the plant, including disease organisms. Increased carbon dioxide from the respiration of the bacteria and fungi increases the time that stomates open and let foliar nutrients into the leaves. When Liquid Organics is applied to the soil, it improves the soil structure, increases nutrient uptake, breaks down pollutants and reduces water use.


WHY ARE REPEATED APPLICATIONS IMPORTANT?

Environmental conditions, although they vary, commonly include numerous negative impacts that kill the microbial populations on an ongoing basis. This includes air pollution, dust, prior pesticide and herbicide use, drift and over spray, synthetic fertilizers, salinization, water pollution, chlorine, current building and agricultural practices that ignore soil life, over or under watering, compacted soils, unusual freeze, drought, flood, etc.

Repeated applications re-establish the beneficial microbes that suffer or can be killed under the above abuses.


HOW LONG DO MICROBES LIVE IN THE SOIL?

Colonies of beneficial microorganisms continue to live in soil as long as they are provided good conditions and organic food sources. Stressful conditions in the soil will make microbes go-to-sleep and become inactive, but not dead. These organisms may wake-up again after very long periods of time.

Of course, contaminants such as pesticides, herbicides, and air pollutants impact microbe lifespan. Chemicals from urban garden applications are easily carried airborne many miles from their original site. You are impacted by what your neighbors and neighborhood communities do. Be assured that if your neighbor treats his landscape with chemicals, your landscape is receiving residues from these applications. In which case, repeated applications, as mentioned above, are critical.

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