EZ-Flo Fertilizer Tank
There are a handful of things that are necessary for the plants in your landscape to survive & thrive. Water, sun, weather and nutrients are the main ingredients. As a homeowner, for the most part, you cannot manipulate the sun or weather; whatever mother nature gives you is what you get. On the other hand, the two things you can manipulate (at least to some degree) are water and nutrients. The irrigation timer is how you adjust how much or how little water you give your landscape. Nutrients are something that you can give using fertilizer at various times throughout the year using the EZ-Flo Fertilizer Tank Injection System.
Before we jump into fertilizer tanks, let’s take a step back and talk about plant basics. The stages of the plant life cycle are 1) seed, 2) germination, 3) growth, 4) reproduction, 5) pollination, and 6) seed spreading. Most plants begin from seeds. Seeds grow into roots and shoots. The roots below ground help the shoots above ground to grow leaves. Some plants make flowers and those flowers turn into fruits. Flowers and fruits make their own seeds. In short, this is more or less the plant life cycle.
At its core, the plant life cycle will not happen without sun & water, as well as other nutrients. Being that we’re in Greater Prescott, we’re just about guaranteed sun. Water is usually a given if you have an irrigation system, which allows you to water the optimal amount. That leaves us with getting nutrients to our plants, so let’s talk about how that happens.
Soil is where plants get a majority of their nutrients. There are four types of soil; sand, silt, clay and loam. In Greater Prescott, soil textures vary from cobbly and gravelly loamy sand to gravelly loam. What does this mean? We have average amounts of minerals & nutrients, as well as higher calcium and pH levels, which is a good foundation for our landscape plants. For those who want to supercharge their plants, feeding them fertilizer is the no-brain approach.
Fertilizer is applied in either a granular or liquid form. Both options have pro’s and con’s, and for this particular article we’ll talk about why we’ve decided to use liquid over granular fertilizer. First, liquid fertlizer has significantly faster up-take by plants, thus results happen faster. Second, there’s no automatic fertilizer system that we’ve found that uses granular fertilizer. Lastly, liquid fertilizers setup perfectly for Greater Prescott because of our soil and terrain. The fact that you install one fertilizer tank, and keep it filled with liquid fertilizer, means that the tank does all the work.
This is where Guardian Landscape comes in. We can install the fertilizer tank onto your irrigation system. This fertilizer tank puts liquid fertilizer into the irrigation system when the irrigation system is running. As long as you have fertilizer in the tank, then your shrubs & trees (or whatever is on the irrigation line) will receive fertilizer. This is a fantastic addition to vegetable and fruit gardens, as well as
You might now be asking yourself, “what all needs to be done so that I can have a fertilizer tank installed?” As for the installation, it’s a simple process and doesn’t require any major irrigation changes. It’s something that can be completed in one day or less, at which point the shrubs and trees in your landscape will be receiving fertilizer, all while you’re enjoying your day not fertilizing yourself.
Depending on the application for your fertilizer tank, there are soil management, landscape solutions and micro-nutrients. For example, Flora-Plus is a high phosphate fertilizer great for promoting flowers. Arbor-Plus has high primary and macro-nutrients for trees & shrubs. Turf-Plus is high in nitrogen and potassium, which among other things brings out the best in your grass’s color. Nutra-Plus is a multi-purpose fertilizer great for nearly all applications of plants. Also, there are fertilizers for micro-nutrients as well as soil management. The main point is that there’s a product out there that’ll fit your application perfectly. To view fertilizer options, then click here.
As we wrap, we have another fantastic use-case for the fertilizer tank. Do you struggle with gophers? Many people in Greater Prescott do, and the fertilizer tank is a great option to lower the probability that gophers will be a nuisance. We pour gopher repellent into the tank, along with the fertilizer. This repellent, just like the fertilizer, is pulled into the irrigation system each time the valve(s) turns on. This gets the repellent into the soil, often times in the same areas where the gophers are giving you problems. Keep in mind that this is a repellent rather than a gopher killer. Our goal is that gophers would be deterred from your yard and instead find another yard to be a nuisance.
That wraps it up for installing a fertilizer tank. Thank you for reading this article, and if you’re interested, then call Guardian Landscape.
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