Imagine a fertilizer that's considered plant food.  One that will not only make your lawn lush and green but will encourage growth and benefit the environment.  One that provides the essential nutrients for a balanced diet tol help your lawn, trees, plants, and shrubs grow healtier and more vibrant year after year. 

Well you don't have to imagine.  Bio Green's formuals are manufactured from the purest ingredients available on the market today.  They are designed not only to provide proper nourishment, but to improve the soil by increasing the growth and activity of the microorganismsm that are critical for maximum plant development.  Our fertilizers are biologically sound and completely safe for all plant life, animals, and people. 

At Bio Green, we care about the health of your entire landscape.  Not only do we promote the nourishment of your lawn, we encourage nutrition for your trees, shrubs, plants, flowerbeds and vegetable gardens too.  

Just like your own well being, proper nutrition is key to maintaining good health and a high quality of life.  So you can consider our fertilization program, preventative maintenance for your lawn and landscape.  Here's to years of good health!  

Ingredients in our Bio Green formula:

• 6% Nitrogen                      
• 5% Phosphate
• 5% Soluble Potash
• 4% Sulfur
• Magnesium
• Calcium
• Iron
• Manganese
• Zinc
• Copper
• 200 beneficial soil microorganisms
• 70 Colloidal minerals, Norwegian Sea Kelp with Cytokinins, Humic, Fulvic and Amino acids

Micronutrients and Macronutrients—What They Do

The role that the following nutrients play in plant growth and development is essential.  For a general knowledge of the elements and nutrients in plant life, below is a complete list of nutrients and how they help the plant.  Every nutrient listed is contained in all of our Bio Green formulas.

Macronutrients

Nitrogen (N)

• The most used nutrient
• Stimulates dark green vegetative growth, promotes vigorous stem and leaf growth to improve overall quality of the turf
• Involved with amino acids, protein, chlorophyll and genetic material
• Involved in regulating the uptake of other elements
• Nitrogen is made available by soil microbes

Deficiency: Older leaves appear yellow.  New leaves are stunted with shorter, narrower blade and leaf structure.

Excess: Plant leaves burn with elongated growth, bud drop, poor fruit and flower production.

Phosphorus (P)

• Needed for seed, root, flower and fruit growth  
• Influences early root development and growth
• Essential for genetic material, membrane formation, cell division and reproduction and energy transfer 
• Soil pH should be between 6.0 - 7.0

Deficiency: Reddish to purple leaves, stunted growth, dark green leaves with tip burn, poor fruit, flower and root set.

Excess: Restricts the availability of Zinc, Manganese & Iron.

Potassium (K)

• The second most used nutrient
• Key component in the formation of carbohydrates (food for the plant) and cell division
• Improves overall plant vigor and disease resistance 
• Encourages root growth and fruit quality
• Enhances drought and cold tolerance
• Required for stomata guard cells, regulates absorption of Calcium, Sodium and Nitrogen  
• Helps roots withstand compacted soils

Deficiency: Plants exhibit chlorosis (loss of green color) along the leaf margins or tips starting with the bottom leaves and progressing up the plant.  Sagging, curling, drooping and softer feeling blades and leaves.

Excess: Restricts availability of Magnesium and Boron.

Secondary Nutrients

Calcium (Ca) 

• Stimulates root growth  
• Promotes firm, thick stems  
• Strongly influences proper soil pH and helps to correct soil acidity and
• Can improve soil structure, water retention and infiltration
• Needed for Nitrogen uptake and protein synthesis  
• Must be present for cell walls, also plays a role in enzyme activation and cell reproduction

Deficiency: Symptoms appear in the meristem regions (new growth) of leaves, stems, buds and roots.  Younger leaves are affected first and are usually deformed. In extreme cases, the growing tips die.  Roots on calcium deficient plants are short and stubby with slower development.  In tomatoes and peppers, a black leathery appearance develops on the blossom end of the fruit (a disorder called blossom end rot).

Excess: Restricts availability of Magnesium, Potassium, Iron, Zinc, Phosphorus, and Boron.

Magnesium (Mg)  

• Essential for chlorophyll production and photosynthesis  
• Necessary for Phosphorus metabolism and enzyme activation  
• Enhances the production of oils and fats 
• Promotes early growth, uniformity and plant hardiness
• Facilitates the translocation of Phosphorus and carbohydrates (sugars and starches).  Some plants are heavy users such as citrus and roses.

Deficiency: The predominant symptom is interveinal chlorosis (dark green veins with yellow areas between the veins) or color spotting with yellowing.  The bottom leaves are always affected first with curled tips; narrower blades and leaves.

Excess: Restricts availability of Potassium, Zinc, Manganese and Boron.

Sulfur (S)

• Works with nitrogen to produce new protein stimulating plant growth and seed formation  
• Important in the production of chlorophyll
• Plays an important role in the utilization of oxygen by the plant and protein formation
• An essential element that is used in amino acids, proteins and several vitamins
• Will lower the pH in the soil and influences the level of activity of soil microorganisms

Deficiency: Characterized by stunted growth, delayed maturity and general yellowing of plants. Yellowed plants are also characteristic of Nitrogen deficiency.  However, unlike Nitrogen deficiency which begins in the older leaves and progresses up the plant, sulfur deficiency symptoms begin in the young, upper leaves first. Frequently misdiagnosed as nitrogen deficiency.

Excess: Can create acidic pH that can be toxic.

Micronutrients

Iron (Fe)

• Essential for formation of chlorophyll promoting green color
• Constituent of various enzymes and proteins
• Aids in the activation of a number of biochemical processes within the plant  

Deficiency: Interveinal chlorosis of young leaves and twig die back.  Iron deficiencies are most common in wet, cold or high pH soils.  Newer growth appears pale green to yellow; severe deficiencies appear entirely yellow or white.  Similar to nitrogen deficiency, particularly in loss of color.

Excess: Restricts availability of Zinc and Manganese.

Manganese (Mn)

• Promotes plant maturity
• Acts as an enzyme activator for Nitrogen assimilation.  It is essential for the manufacture of chlorophyll.  
• Low plant Manganese, therefore, reduces the chlorophyll content causing leaves to turn yellow (chlorosis).

Deficiency: Typically characterized by interveinal chlorosis (dark green veins with yellow discoloration between the veins), but symptoms vary depending on the plant.

Excess: Iron is restricted.

Zinc (Zn)

• Necessary for the production of chlorophyll
• Helps increase cellular development and leaf size
• Part of the enzyme systems which regulate plant growth 
• Essential for the transformation of carbohydrates and regulates consumption of sugar

Deficiency: The first obvious symptom of deficiency is interveinal chlorosis of the upper (youngest) leaves.  Afterwards, shoot growth slows down.  Stripping or banding of color can occur.

Excess: Restricts availability of Iron, Copper and Manganese.

Copper (Cu)

• Important for reproductive growth
• Catalyst for enzyme and chlorophyll synthesis
• Aids in root metabolism and helps in the utilization of proteins
• Needed only in small quantities; large amounts can be toxic to turf and plants

Deficiency: Symptoms generally appear on young plants.  The first symptoms are yellowing of the youngest leaves accompanied by slightly stunted growth.  In extreme cases, leaves become shriveled, twisted, broken, ragged and die.

Chlorine (Cl)

• Aids plant metabolism
• Essential for proper plant function but only small amounts are required
• Helps the regulation of osmotic pressure within the plant cell
• Chlorine is naturally found in the soil

Deficiency: Reduced growth; stubby roots; interveinal chlorosis; non-succulent tissue (in leafy vegetables) and blade wilting.

Boron (B)

• Essential for seed, root and fruit development
• Necessary for plant reproduction and cell wall formation
• Aids in production and transport of sugar and starch  
• Helps in the use of nutrients and regulates other nutrients
• Helps maintain optimum water balance in plants

Deficiency: The first visible symptom of deficiency is death of the growing tips with blades somewhat twisted or curled in growth.  This disorder is generally followed by growth of lateral shoots, which may also be deformed or die.  Other symptoms include stunted roots, failure to set flowers.

Molybdenum (Mo)

• Essential to the process of nitrogen utilization

Deficiency: Symptoms are very similar to those of Nitrogen: pale-green to yellow leaves; yellow spots on leaves; marginal chlorosis along side and tip of blade; thick cupped leaves.  The marginal chlorosis exhibited by some plants looks similar to Potassium deficiency.  Stunted growth in advanced stages of deficiency.