Sod: Soil Moisture Management
About Soil Moisture Management
Water and soil chemistry contribute to the difficulty of properly hydrating the sod root zone. Soil structure plays a huge role in soil moisture management because water must pass through the soil to reach the root zone. Proper plant-available calcium helps maintain a chemical balance in the soil and allows for soil hydration and micro pore space. This is the only location where roots can absorb water and nutrients.
Sod: Soil Moisture Management
About Salinity Management
Water and soil chemistry contribute to the difficulty of properly hydrating the sod root zone. Soil structure plays a huge role in soil moisture management because water must pass through the soil to reach the root zone. Proper plant-available calcium helps maintain a chemical balance in the soil and allows for soil hydration and micro pore space. This is the only location where roots can absorb water and nutrients.
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SurCal+ helps reconstruct the soil your sod grows in so that there are micropore spaces for root development and nutrient uptake. It adds the important surfactant to carry the calcium to where it is needed most while simultaneously lowering surface tension for better water movement.
Sod farmers have long understood the importance of calcium for sod nutrition with the standard treatment often being gypsum, lime or calcium nitrate. However, none of these solutions are plant available. MegaCal contains plant-available calcium that is both nano-sized for efficient delivery and chelated so that the nutrients’ outer shell allows it to easily maneuver around other charged ions in the soil and easily enter the plant. Calcium helps maintain a chemical balance in the soil, reduces soil salinity, and improves water penetration into the soil, assisting in the restoration of soil colloid flocculation.
Carbon is an important nutrient in your soil. It is one of the basic building blocks of all life forms, and with the proper mix of both carbon and proteins, all plants can benefit. A balance of carbon with the amounts of nitrogen you apply allows for overall lower N inputs and increased nitrogen efficiency.