Fertile Ground For Entertaining, But Is The Ground Fertile?

Your LA yard is a fertile place for entertaining. Your work in your yard has created a beautiful landscape with green lawns, colorful touches, and a hardscape outdoor living space where the guests love to gather. But your property will only stay fertile for that landscape with some help. M1 loves to help you create the yard of your dreams, but often your initial plans don't plan for plant health. Adding fertilizers to your lawn and plants can be the difference between your yard's longevity and fading away.

Nature

In nature, plants go through their natural life cycles. Some survive while others don't, and they break down and become food for the other plants as Darwinism is wont to do. In addition, as trees and other plants shed, they create a natural mulch for the roots of other plants, which then becomes a natural fertilizer. This circle of life ecosystem extends to trees providing shade for the plants below it and other plants growing in dead tree trunks. But in the modern human world, we change things to suit our aesthetics or other needs.

Nom Nom Nom

We all have favorite foods. Some of us choose foods primarily for nutrition, while others pick them based on taste. Then, we go to the store or restaurant to get what we like, bring it home and eat it. But what if no one replenished that food? You may have to change what you were eating. But if you could only eat a few things, eventually, you'd run out of food. If you could only survive on canned peas, eat a lot of canned peas. If all your neighbors also only ate canned peas, you'd run into a supply issue. This concept is the problem with the modern lawn - it gets its nutrition from the soil, but that soil depletes over time. To some extent, this can be true of all of your plants.

The Old Way

Back when human landscaping was primarily about agriculture, we rotated crops. Have any friends who are into natural gardening? They'll probably know about crop rotation. Crop rotation is changing what grows in a particular plot of land. That's because as one plant grows, it eats up all its favorite food (the canned peas in the above scenario). But if you change it with another plant that eats a different food and produces canned peas, you've solved your problem.

Modern Landscaping

Modern landscaping is based on how it makes a yard look, and we often want our yards to look the same all year. So the lawn becomes the paradigm of uniformity. Since we're not changing the crops that grow in the soil, and nutrients are depleting, we need another way to replenish them. That's where supplementing with various fertilizers comes in.

Soil Quality

If your plants are no longer healthy, that's a good sign that your soil needs more nutrients, but you probably want to start immediately. The better option is to periodically test your soil to understand its soil composition and pH. Once you know what your soil lacks, you'll realize what soil amendments to use.

Choosing Your Fertilizer

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of fertilizers and soil amendments available to you. It can be challenging to know which one is right for your plants. M1 selects only the highest quality products for our clients' landscaping.

Lawn Treatments

When M1 is in charge of your lawn care, we handle your lawn treatments. In addition to weed control, aeration, and overseeding, we fertilize your lawn. Most lawns have similar needs because, over time, they deplete the same nutrients.

Garden Fertilizer

In a few minutes in the hardware store, you'll find many different fertilizers formulated for everything from roses to tomatoes. If you take pride in handling your garden, there's much to understand and study. But if you want help, M1 can handle it.

Compost

One great all-around additive for your gardens is compost. Many homeowners have created their own compost heaps to use their table scraps and yard clippings and reduce food waste. Not only does compost help to reduce methane, but it's a beautiful, natural way to fertilize your veggie or flower gardens!

Let M1 Help!

Like most landscaping, correctly fertilizing is more complicated than it looks. Too much, and you burn your plants. Too little, and they don't thrive. M1 would love to handle all your fertilization and other landscaping needs so you can focus on enjoying your yard!