Organic & Sustainable Maintenance

The Fall season is a very important time in the life cycle of your lawn. Believe it or not, it is during this time of the year when the healthy organisms in your lawns soil and the root systems of your lawn are the most active and growing the most! You can have the biggest positive influence on the health of your lawn and how it will look next Spring and Summer by doing the right things this Fall. Some services we can offer your lawn include a core aeration, overseeding, a topdressing of our special highly enriched organic compost, the Drake’s Compost Tea application, and a late Fall organic fertilizing.

What is Compost Tea?
Compost Tea is a liquid version of compost. Drake’s uses a high quality humus (organic material found in soil) from Alaska. It is pretreated by adding special ingredients and left to age for 48 hours in a dark place. After, it is put into a cheesecloth pouch and soaked in water. At this stage more ingredients such as fish hydrolysates, solu-plex, and kelp meal are added to the mixture. Over the next 24 hours oxygen is run through the brew causing the biology to multiply. The tea now has a deep chocolate color and smells like healthy earth. Drake’s Compost Tea must be applied to the soil and plants within 3 hours to maximize its potential.

What are the benefits to using Drake’s Compost Tea?
We brew our own Compost Tea and apply it to our new landscapes for two reasons.

• First, to inoculate healthy microbial life into the soil and onto the foliage of your garden plants.

• Second, to add nutrients to the soil and the foliage of the plants to feed the microbial organisms and the plants.

We suggest using our Compost Tea anytime your soil and plants look unhealthy. Many harsh chemicals used today in our environment kill a wide range of the beneficial microorganisms that are essential for your garden plants to grow and be healthy, while Compost Teas actually improve the life that is in your garden soil and on your garden plants surfaces. Our high quality Compost Tea will help inoculate the leaf, bark, and soil surfaces with healthy microorganisms instead of harming them.