Seaweed is an incredible natural resource that excels at absorbing nutrients and minerals from water and storing them in a way that allows for easy breakdown. This ultimately feeds your grass, helping you grow a beautiful lawn while benefiting the environment.
Why Sunday uses seaweed with fertilizer
At Sunday, we prioritize sustainability and environmental responsibility in our lawn care products. Our seaweed is sustainably harvested and processed, making it a planet-friendly food source for your lawn.
Why else is seaweed a great choice? Well, traditional lawn care often calls for oversupplying fertilizer and pesticides, which leads to harmful runoff and nutrient overload in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Seaweed offers a solution to this pollution by providing a more balanced and eco-friendly approach.
Seaweed absorbs excess nutrients from the ocean and repurposes them as food for your lawn, reducing nutrient concentrations in the surrounding environment. This process not only improves water quality but also gives these wasted nutrients a second life as a natural ingredient in your lawn fertilizer.
Seaweed: the ultimate natural lawn fertilizer
Seaweed is rich in essential minerals and micronutrients that your lawn needs to thrive. Here are some key benefits:
Nutrient-rich composition
Seaweed contains an abundance of beneficial nutrients, including nitrogen, potassium, phosphate, magnesium, iodine, copper, iron, and zinc. These nutrients strengthen your grass roots and give your lawn an extra boost of green color. Plus, seaweed gets to work fast, providing nutrients quickly to your soil and grass.
Stress resistance
As a plant itself, seaweed is high in carbohydrates and contains hormones that encourage plant growth. These hormones stimulate beneficial responses in turf, helping it withstand heat stress and promote deep root growth. Your lawn will grow longer and stronger, making it more resilient during hot summer months.
Moisture retention
Seaweed helps your soil stay saturated with water for longer, reducing the need for frequent watering. This means your lawn can sustain itself with less water, making it more drought-tolerant—a win-win for both your lawn and water conservation efforts.
Environmental and economic benefits of seaweed fertilizer
Seaweed offers numerous environmental and economic benefits, particularly to the coastal regions where it is sourced. It supports local farmers and diversifies coastal economies that depend on fisheries. Additionally, seaweed can sequester carbon from the environment, playing a role in combating climate change.
Seaweed also provides essential habitat and feed for invertebrates and insects, vital components of the food chain. It helps keep water calmer at high tide, providing a safe place for lobsters, mussels, and oysters to settle and grow.
Sustainable lawn care with seaweed
By choosing seaweed fertilizers over traditional fertilizers, we can all support a more sustainable and environmentally responsible approach to lawn care.
That's why you'll find seaweed extract in every Sunday custom lawn plan and several products we love for lawns, including:
Get a seaweed-strong lawn
Our lawn engine uses satellite data to map out your lawn size and determine things like average rainfall, common weeds, and pest activity. We use that to build you a custom lawn plan tailored to your needs and formulated with mystery-free ingredients—like seaweed.
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