How to Keep Your Lawn Healthy Throughout the Summer with Omega Soil Activator
Channel: Southland Organics
Date: 04/05/2023

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At Southland Organics, we provide natural solutions to natural problems—and our natural solution to keeping your grass healthy throughout the hot summer is Omega Soil Activator. Omega is the second step in our three-step natural lawn care program.

After using Genesis Soil Conditioner in the spring, the next step in our all-natural lawn care program is to use Omega, a natural soil activator for lawns, in the summer. Omega is our amplified formula of biologically active carbon and organic acids. The added proprietary blend of beneficial bacteria promotes nutrient uptake and builds grass that is resilient to disease and environmental stress. Omega contains 72 natural trace elements in a form that is readily available for your lawn’s soil to use.

Omega (and all of our other lawn care products!) leverage our three core features to supercharge soil with the building blocks turf grass needs to thrive.

The added beneficial microbes help decompose residual pesticides and herbicides and unlock bound nutrients in the soil. This makes nutrients available to plants in simpler, more easily absorbed forms. Microbes amplify conventional programs by making your inputs work harder for longer.

Organic acids and top-quality, organic carbon work to break surface tension of compacted soils and deliver oxygen to the root zone. Grass grows deeper roots in oxygenated soil, helping it resist disease and overtake weeds.

Carbon is the main building block of all organic life. In fact, 50% of plant life made up of carbon. Carbon feeds microbes and is critical to microbial health. The microbes, in turn, assimilate nutrients and deliver them to the roots for growth and development. Carbon is the ultimate macro element that lawns need to thrive.

With these three secret ingredients, plants develop deeper roots, retain water, resist disease and pests and become lush and healthy.

Let's break down how the second step in our all-natural lawn care program, Omega, works. When you feed the soil in the presence of stress, such as heat or unpredictable rainfall, you energize microorganisms and promote nutrient uptake to maximize the potential of grass. This builds fertile soil that is resilient to environmental changes.

Omega is designed to boost conventional turf programs. We've studied the results of the applications, made tissue samples and monitored the application rates, and the results continue to prove that Omega will take your lawn (plus golf course greens and hydroseeding jobs) to the next level.

Because Omega is such an effective soil activator, you may be wondering how much it costs. Well, here's the good news: Before you apply one of our concentrated lawn products like Omega, you typically dilute it at a 1:20 product to water ratio. With this mixture, a little goes a long way, making it a cost-effective solution! For more natural products that work alongside Omega, check out our complete lawn care program lineup.

Omega improves soil structure by increasing water retention, aerating the soil and adding plant nutrients. Like many soil activators, it improves poor soils by improving the way soil particles fit together and adding organic matter throughout.

Inorganic fertilizers and soil activators often include chemicals that can harm the environment in the long run. In our "fast green" world, we've built up an illusion that lawn products should make our grass look green instantly. This is due to many high nitrogen fertilizers pumping grass with too much nitrogen. While this result may give you instant gratification, it does little for soil improvement and actually harms the environment through excess nutrient runoff.

Omega focuses on the true health of the soil so that you can have healthy root growth and plant growth for the long run. Products like Omega are considered biological activators because of a complex bio catalyst process they initiate in the soil. They also address soil health instead of only focusing on fast, visible results.

The summer is the best time to apply a soil activator like Omega. Apply 6–8 oz. of Omega per 1,000 square feet in a sprayer diluted at a 1:20 product to water ratio.

To find out exactly when and how much Omega to apply, take our quick quiz. After you take the quiz, we’ll recommend a custom plan for your lawn for the entire growing season.

If you have any questions about using Omega to grow a healthy lawn, email us at success@southlandorganics.com or give us a call at 800-608-3755. Be sure to follow us @SouthlandOrganics on your favorite social media platforms to stay in the know and get tips on natural lawn, garden and coop care.