do I still have to fertilize if I'm using your products and the answer is no our products are a comprehensive approach to feeding your plants and your soil that satisfies the need to do fertilizer in Spring that's what this video is all about how to use our products in spring so our video today has chapters just like a good book and you can skip to different chapters depending on exactly why you're watching this video or you can watch them all which I would do if I were you cuz they're all really interesting and helpful I'm
John Valentino president of Johan and Bob's Corporation and Chip Valentino is out to a lunch date he'll return on our next video the one product we have that is for all Lawns because it has macro nutrients nourished biosol which you would put on at about 6 to 10 lb per th000 square ft and it will address feeding the lawn feeding the soil in a way that can prevent fungal disease and in a way that can give you a beautiful deep Green Spring is definitely the first time to use nourished biosol you wouldn't necessarily want to
go just by Spring but a combination of Springtime and relatively warm atmospheric temperatures and relatively warm soil temperatures like 50 55° on the soil 70° and more as the highs on the lawn your subsequent applications would depend on how green you want to keep it if you want the greenest lawn in your neighborhood you might have to make applications like that every 6 to 8 weeks on our label information we say twice a year so I would do it sometime around the beginning of Spring and then again maybe the beginning of Summer that's kind of
the fundamental product that you would use on all Lawns now if you happen to have problems with your soil like drainage fungal disease pests then we might want to encourage a faster building of beneficial life and use more of our products so then we would consider optimize in the winter and nourish biosol in the spring and summer and then also spraying over the nourish biosol with penetrate liquid bio tillers or you might want to use blend if you have these problems now blend is the three products together and because you're using three products it is
the most expensive of the treatments it's an excellent treatment for your lawn but if you have 25,000 square feet that can be a very expensive treatment so then I would look at using optimize individually at the opportune time using nourish biosol by itself at the opportune time probably an application or two of penetrate liquid bio tiller you have a choice you can either do a heavy application right at planting I would use blend and use a good rate of application so as much as a cup or two say for tomato plants usually that will suffice
for the entire year if you wanted to do more like a half a cup to a cup you could then do another appli appliation in a in a month and a half or 2 months but I usually do just one application for vegetable crops that only last three or 4 months on fruit trees and crops that stay in the ground maybe like certain Berry crops then you would apply more than once apply in the spring and then again about mid to late summer and that falls in line with our label recommendations of twice a year
some people use it and get such a fabulous response they ask me well can I put it on once a month and you can put it on once a month and it's almost impossible to overuse it what we're trying to do with our recommendations of rate is give you the most value for your money spring is the best time to start this process of building the soil in terms of an anti- pest regimen up to 70% of pests start in the soil one of the real good strategies is if you build life in the soil
that those pests will be eradicated before they become pests while they're still in the soil beneficial microbes eat the beginning forms of pests so we did a video about pests you can check that video out right here which gives you all kinds of organic products you can use and it'll encourage you to apply most of those products right now in early spring but if we then have some problems with pests and disease then we would use for fungal problems citrol blast in viral repel 40 for pests for Roses which tend to have sometimes both fungal
disease and pests we have a product called Rose and soil Defender and that can really be used on anything but we called it Rose and soil Defender cuz it's particularly effective on roses most likely I wouldn't apply them in the spring unless I saw a problem and usually in Spring there's not a lot of pest and disease problems those develop as we get into warmer weather I would only use them in the spring if I see an issue they're more after the fact type products and before the fact we're using penetrate liquid bio tiller we're
using blend if you want to maximize Bloom and maximize health of flowers use blend right around now the other thing I like to apply is penetrate liquid bioer either over the top of Blend or a week or two after the blend so a tremendous treatment for roses and we've tried this in different r Rose clubs we've gotten the best results with about three cups of blend over the root zone of the Rose and then spray over that with penetrate liquid bio tiller and you can add to that if you continue to have any kind of
pester disease is you do the blend and then do about an inch and a half to two inches of earthworm castings over the blend that combination feeds the Roose but also does it in a way that limits things like aphid and white fly and all kinds of other pests my favorite treatment for trees is blend right over the root zone so the root zone is all the way out to the edges of the canopy it's hard to say how much you'd use it depends on the size of the tree if you're having any kinds of
problems with a tree at all then I would usually spray over that with penetrate liquid bio tiller if everything's going great just the blend is a good way to fertilize trees if you have a tree that tends to get aphid or white fly use the blend and then over the blend as a mulch we use about inch and a half to 2 in of earthworm castings and then you can spray right over that with penetrate liquid bio tiller does a fantastic job with problematic soils and those could be a range of things they can be
clay they can be kichi they can be Sandy all of them will be improved by the same effort and that is to build life in the soil now it doesn't mean that you will turn sandy soil into LOM soil just by using products like like ours but you can make sandy soil retain moisture much better and retain nutrients much better and be a much better medium for growing plants same with Clay we can change clay to something that allows water to penetrate and go through it a medium that's more workable if your soil is particularly
terrible we might recommend more than twice a year applications if you want to speed up the progress in reclaiming it and improving it but we would definitely recommend that twice per year and then see how things go and see what kind of improvements you see usually in the first 3 to 6 months you see quite a bit of improvement and that might encourage you to add an additional treatment during the year early spring Midsummer late summer early fall an excellent thing to do if you're just a little confused by all of this is apply blend
it's good for everything and if you really want to give it an extra charge of goodness then you apply blend and you spray over the top of the blend with penetrate liquid bioer that's a way to make all soils as healthy as possible if the size of your garden is such that that's prohibitive then we'd look at optimize and optimize would eventually get you to the same place but it'll take longer that's the one product that you can apply before spring and allow rain and moisture to start to break it down and it breaks down
very slowly I'd start with optimize and then see how things do and maybe use some penetrate liquid bioer here and there maybe spot with nourish biosol so this product line is actually extremely simple but it doesn't always seem like it unfortunately if you're using this product line you don't have to obsess over any of it it's really very easy to use you can't do any damage it's tremendously effective no matter in what order you use them but feel free to ask me about my opinion of the absolute best way that'll maximize your value if you
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