BioVam® Grown Lawns
BioVam consistently achieves these goals for turf grasses, established by the USGA:

Substantially reduce and conserve water usage:
Can be cut up to 50%. Soil drainage conditions are going to dictate how much water reduction is realized. (What you save on water often pays for the cost of product).
Substantially reduce pesticide applications:
Cut 80% to 90%. 100% if you want to go all organic. Many of the reasons to use pesticides are significantly reduced when using BioVam®, often eliminating the need to use them.
Substantially reduce maintenance costs:
40% increase in new shoot growth with up to 80% decrease in clippings, depending on the NPK of the organic fertilizer used. Fertilize spring and fall. Develops healthier turf grass: reducing lawn care maintenance costs overall. BioVam is applied once per year.
Be 100% environmentally safe:
BioVam is 100% Organic and environmentally safe.
Provide a lawn that is drought tolerant:
BioVam aids development of deeper roots and sod biomass, reaching deeper water tables: less water input is required. Dried out lawns recover quickly when watered. Lawns stay greener, longer in extended hot weather conditions.
Reduce the mowing requirements:
Vertical top growth is reduced by up to 80%, depending on the NPK of the organic fertilizer used. T & J Enterprises recommends Biosol Organic Fertilizers. Clipping volume is often cut by 50% to 80%.
Apply only Organic fertilizers:
Biosol is an Organic Fertilizer.

BioVam Grown Eggplant BioVam is a leader in enhanced year round sustained container growing. "This plant is less than one month old. Planted in our soil mix and treated with BioVam."

Develop a lawn tolerant to heavy traffic:
Treated lawns develop up to 40% increase in new shoots creating denser turf. Soil compaction is significantly reduced: resists wear from heaver traffic. Recovers quicker.
Develop competitiveness against weeds:
BioVam lawns develop denser turf, deeper roots and sod mass and are significantly healthier: healthy lawns tend to naturally crowd out weeds. Many weeds do not like to grow where Mycorrhiza is plentiful. Weeds like dandelions tend to get crowded out but are never totally eliminated. Weeds like Black Medic may have to be controlled. It has taken three years for Black Medic to invade one of our test lawns.
The lawn must grow in direct sun and shade:
BioVam lawns grow equally well in sun and shade.
Develop more new growth:
BioVam treated lawns commonly develop rhizome roots 3/16 inch to 1/4 inch thick and produces up to 40% new shoot growth.
Develop a deeper root system:
Vertical roots extend deeper into the soil, often up to 17 inches; sod biomass is denser in the first 12 inches. Soil conditions will dictate just how extensive, but even in rocky soils our customers are reporting that deeper development is enhanced.
Reduces sod transplant losses and planting shock:
When drop-spreading BioVam mixed 1:2 with sand, as a carrier before laying the sod rooting is faster and deeper, greening is enhanced. Sod drying is greatly reduced. Mending is enhanced and quickened.
Increases tolerance to soil salinity and polluted soil conditions:
One of our test lawns was vandalized by pouring used car motor oil over the entire length of it: the lawn did not die out. (We do not recommend the test!) After three years, many of our treated lawns have been exposed to road grime, chemicals, salts and deicers: spring growth on these lawns has shown no detrimental effects, whereas before they were treated showed significant damage in the spring.

"It bears pointing out that, to the best of our knowledge, the USGA has yet to achieve all of these goals with their current turf management practices", says Thomas.

Using BioVam to achieve great looking, natural green lawns is easy!

"You can always spot a BioVam Grown lawn somewhere in the block in the middle of summer and in the midst of high summer heat", Thomas says, "it's usually the only one that's all green! And the owner is not out there every other week dumping high nitrogen or chemical fertilizers on it to keep it that way!"

BioVam Grown Lawns Resist Summer Dry Out

	Home lawn of T & J Enterprises. We have yet to capture on camera the richness and spectrum of the natural greens. The effects vary throughout the day depending on the light and types of grasses in the lawn, and are spectacular!
This picture was taken 8-01-99. The weather forecast for the week, mid 90's. BioVam Grown lawns just get greener as it gets hotter, while the non-BioVam lawns in the distance, just get browner. "How they do that", you ask? See below.

Mow and rake up any debris. Core or spike aerate your lawn. Mix appropriate amount of BioVam for area to be treated using one quart of BioVam with two quarts of Ironite used as a carrier for the BioVam and for the minerals lawns need. Use a drop spreader and apply to 2,000 square feet. Apply an appropriate organic fertilizer. Use of BioVam Mycorrhiza requires that turf - and plant - fertilizers NOT HAVE a phosphorus percentage higher than 2% by weight. Higher levels of phosphorus are detrimental to the Mycorrhiza fungi. Examples of appropriate fertilizers: Biosol 7-2-3, recommended and used by T & J Enterprises, Ringers All Natural 10-2-6, Milorganite 6-2-0, Cottonseed Meal 6-2-1. Please see our "How To Apply BioVam®" brochure for fungicidal usage and precautions; which are safe to use, which are not when using BioVam. Available at the retail centers below.

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