Using Humate On Your Lawn

What are humates?

According to the Humic Products Trade Association, “Humic substances are the natural, dark-colored humified remains of decayed biomatter, ubiquitous in the environment as major components of natural organic matter in soils, water and sediments, with the highest concentrations found in lake sediments, peat and geological deposits of low-rank brown coals, bituminous coals and shales.”

Humate is made of humic acids, fulvic acid, and humin. Humic acid helps plants take nutrients from the soil. Ulmic acid encourages root growth, and fulvic acid delivers nutrients to the plants.

What are the benefits of using humate on your lawn?

We have seen great results using humate in our lawn programs. Each year we have increased the number of treatments with humate and our properties look stronger and healthier as time passes. Humate benefits your lawn in the following ways:

Simple benefits

• Helps soil hold nutrients.

• Helps soil retain water.

• Builds organic matter.

• Stimulates microbial activity.

• Helps grass germinate.

• Assists transportation of microelements to grass roots.

Complex benefits

• Stabilizes the soil, making the structure more balanced and moderating compaction levels

• Has a chelating effect on nutrients, including iron, magnesium, copper, and zinc.

• Buffers soil against high levels of salinity

• Moderates pH level

When should I apply humate?

• Humate is most useful before the hot summer months. However, you can use it any season except winter (for the northern Utah region.)

• When you plant new seed.

• When you get a disease or fungus, such as Necrotic Ring Spot.

Humate is an inexpensive, natural, and effective way to strengthen your soil and your grass. It works more effectively in some regions than others, but we highly recommend giving it a try in most places.