Also, soil amendments help with nutrient availability so that the turf keeps a healthy desirable color. Struyk Turf offers two different soil amendment applications (lime and (gypsum) to help your lawn look its best. These are the two most common amendments needed by our areas soils. Listed below are some of the reasons why:

The Benefits Of Lime Applications

• Decreases acidity - improving the growing conditions for micro-organisms that are present in your lawn. These micro-organisms literally eat thatch.
• Corrects soil acidity - nutrients are most available when pH is between 6.5 and 7.5.

• Acts as a catalyst - making fertilizer more available to the grass plant.
• Supplies additional plant nutrients:
  - Calcium - responsible for many functions of grass plant growth and development, including uptake of other nutrients, all growth functions, and cell division.
  - Magnesium - an essential part of chlorophyll, which gives plants their green color and generates all energy and food needed by the plant.
• Helps maintain micro-nutrients at their most satisfactory level reducing either toxicity or deficiency symptoms to turf.
• Agronomists state that the greatest single benefit from liming is the reduction in availability of manganese and aluminum in the soil. These elements in high concentrations are toxic to plants and may inhibit the uptake of other plant nutrients.

The Benefits Of Gypsum Applications

• Helps to correct the affects of salt damage caused by ice melting products used to maintain clear sidewalks, driveways, and roads.
• Helps high clay soils accept rain/irrigation by maintaining large soil peds.
• Has a neutral effect on soil pH.
• Aids in the repair of soil structure resulting in less compaction, better root growth, better water penetration, more microbial activity in the root zone, and more effective pre-emergence activity.
• Aids in the regrowth of grass plants in areas damaged by pet deposits.
• Gypsum is a source of calcium and sulfur, both of which are necessary plant nutrients.

Spring or Fall Applications Available

Following aeration is an ideal time to apply lime and/or gypsum.