Soil Treatment for Lawns

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If you are frustrated by grass that never seems to grow, most likely the culprit is poor soil. The soil may have too much or too little acidity. It may be too hard or compacted to drain efficiently. Learn more about soil treatments for lawns from the professionals at Jonathan Green and get your soil on the right track.

Jonathan Green has been growing beautiful, dark-green lawns since 1881. We supply genetically superior cool-season grass seed and other lawn and soil care products to commercial sod growers and independent home and garden retailers in all areas of the United States where cool-season lawn grasses – Kentucky Bluegrass, Tall Fescue, Perennial Ryegrass, and Fine Fescues – are grown.

By following our revolutionary New American Lawn Care Plan, it will be easier than ever to care for your lawn. You will learn how to address the root of your lawn care problems like weeds and insects. Our goal is to help you feed your lawn AND your soil so that you can grow a beautiful Black Beauty® lawn.

What is Soil Treatment?

Soil treatment means that you are amending the soil to improve its physical properties, such as water retention, permeability, water infiltration, drainage, aeration and structure. The goal is to provide a better environment for roots.

Our Soil Treatment Products

Jonathan Green Organic Lawn Food is a complex, organic lawn food that promotes strong grass growth. It can also rejuvenate a thin, stressed lawn by adding organic content to the soil. The easy-to-spread granules can be used on established and newly seeded lawns or when sodding.

Organic Lawn Food contains food-grade organic soil amendments, such as feather meal, bone meal, blood meal, wheat shorts and molasses, that help to improve soil structure and the water-holding capacity of the soil. It will also help your lawn withstand environmental stress.

Its key features include:

Complex, all-organic lawn food
Promotes strong grass growth
Use on newly seeded and established lawns or when sodding
Use in spring, summer or fall
Pet-friendly

Jonathan Green Mag-I-Cal® Plus is an innovative formula that combines our Mag-I-Cal® and Love Your Soil® products. It helps to stimulate soil microbes, break up clay and compacted soils, make the soil more alive and porous, improve root penetration, and increases biological activity while helping release trapped nutrients in the soil.

Before you get started, use our Soil pH Test Kit for Lawns to determine the pH of your soil in just a few minutes. Based on the results, choose either Mag-I-Cal® Plus for Lawns in Acidic & Hard Soil, which contains calcium, sulfur, iron, humic acid, and wood biochar, or Mag-I-Cal® Plus for Lawns in Alkaline & Hard Soil. which contains calcium carbonate in a completely soluble form, sulfur, and other amendments.

With the additional soil amendments in Love Your Soil®, such as iron humate and molasses, you will be well on the way to revitalizing your soil and growing a lawn that will be the envy of your neighborhood!