One of the worst things you can do to your lawn is feed it with urea based fertilizer. Applying urea fertilizer is the agronomic equivalent of feeding your lawn a supersized extra value meal. It fills you up, but we all know it's not healthy.

 

Three things happen when you apply urea to your lawn, and none of them are good. 

• First, in the presence of moisture some nitrogen is rapidly taken up through the plant roots in about 72 hours, resulting in a flush of growth and the production of extra grass clippings. 
• Second, excess nitrogen can be washed down through the soil to contaminate groundwater below. 
• Third, some nitrogen escapes into the atmosphere in the form of ammonia gas without providing any benefit to the turfgrass plants.

 

The problem is that urea is the primary nitrogen source found in most retail lawn fertilizers. For example, the best selling turfgrass fertilizer sold in virtually every discount store and garden center in the country (32-4-8, with 2% iron) contains 19.5% urea, or about 60% of the total nitrogen in the bag. The reason is simple. Urea is a low cost nitrogen source for fertilizer manufacturers.

 

"Uncompromised Quality" is the motto of SeedSuperStore. We believe homeowners should have access to the same high quality fertilizer used by many golf course superintendents to produce uniformly beautiful and healthy turfgrass throughout the growing season.

The primary benefit of Kinder blend fertilizer comes from methylene urea, a nitrogen source that becomes available to the plant very slowly through the natural action of soil microbes. Instead of releasing nitrogen in 3 days like typical urea based retail fertilizer, Kinder blend fertilizer feeds your lawn slowly over a period of months, producing uniformly green grass without a surge of growth.

 

Kinder blend Turf Maximizer (23-0-20 with 96% methylene urea) brings out the natural beauty of the improved turfgrass varieties we sell. Turf Maximizer feeds the plants slowly and steadily, producing uniform color throughout the season.

 

Kinder blend Starter Fertilizer (19-26-6 with 72% methylene urea) conforms to the industry standard starter fertilizer formulation with a 3-4-1 ratio of Nitrogen-Phosphorous-Potassium. Phosphorus is important because it promotes root growth in seedling plants. Experts recommend a total of 1.5 lbs of actual Phosphorus (P2O4) per 1,000 sq ft with a soil test at time of planting.

 

In addition Kinder blend Starter Fertilizer has a significantly higher proportion of slow release nitrogen (72%) than many other starter fertilizers. This is particularly important for slow germinating species such as bluegrass. The phosphorous and methylene urea in Kinder blend Starter Fertilizer remain relatively stationary in the root zone, whereas nitrogen from quick release urea found in many other starter fertilizers can wash through the soil well before the seeds germinate.

 

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