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SoilGlue gives golf course superintendents a win in the battle of the bunkers.

SoilGlue provides many benefits, paramount among them are stability, color, economy and longevity. This environmentally friendly soil stabilizer and colorant was created by Geoponics.

The process of keeping bunkers looking great starts with creating a crisp edge. Maintenance of the bunkers’ walls and edges is usually time-consuming and labor-intensive, but SoilGlue provides a solution that is earth-friendly, while saving time and money.

Let’s face it, bunker maintenance can be among the more formidable aspects of a golf course superintendent’s job.  Nonetheless it’s an unavoidable task in the role of the golf course superintendent. Geoponics created SoilGlue with the golf course superintendent in mind. This soil stabilizer with colorant extends the useful life of the bunkers’ sand, delaying costly replacement and minimizing maintenance.

SoilGlue aids in resisting excessive washing from bunker slopes due to irrigation, rain and wind.

White sands are beautiful, yet also create some maintenance challenges because they show contamination much more readily. The colorant in SoilGlue provides a high contrast visual appeal while preventing contamination of bunkers.

SoilGlue is easy to use. It is applied by spraying the earth-friendly solution on the exposed sand of the soil bunkers’ edges, thereby improving soil stability. It reduces erosion of exposed sand and soil on the edge of golf course bunkers. SoilGlue is also used in other applications where rock hard stability is needed.

SoilGlue permeates and binds soil particles in the bunker to stop contamination of valuable sand. SoilGlue eliminates erosion, stabilizes the bunker faces and can enhance the effectiveness of the drainage system. SoilGlue binds and stabilizes soils, sand and aggregates by gluing them together. Once applied, contaminants, such as stones, cannot migrate up from the bunker cavity contaminating the critical bunker sand.

Like Geoponics’ other products, SoilGlue is environmentally safe. Geoponics provides solutions to golf course superintendents, lawn and landscape professionals, sports & athletic field operators, municipalities, agricultural workers, schools and home users.

SoilGlue:

• Improves soil stability
• Improves adhesion
• Provides lasting color
• Improves aesthetics and playability
• Decreases bunker maintenance costs
• Decreases bunker maintenance labor
• Increases abrasion resistance
• Increases bunker durability
• Increases longevity of bunker
• Prevents bunker collapse
• Prevents degradation
• Prevents and decreases erosion
• Is easy to apply

Looking for more resources on bunker maintenance? Here are a few articles from leaders in the field of golf course maintenance:

– Grounds Maintenance Magazine article on bunker maintenance here, providing information and news for golf & green industry professionals.

– Golf Course Industry Magazine feature article covering bunker maintenance tips from Dellwood Hills Golf Club here.

– Check out other Geoponics blogs for more tools, tips and news here.

Visit Geoponics Booth 2317

Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association Conference & Show

Mon. through Wed., Nov. 17-19, 2014

Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show is featuring several of Geoponics earth friendly turf care solutions favored by the top professionals in the field: Endurant Organic Turf Colorants, Agriox for soil oxygen & Penterra, the fastest-acting soil surfactant on the planet.

The Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show is held at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Dates: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, Nov. 17, Nov. 18 & Nov. 19, 2014

This Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show remains the largest regional showcase and gathering of golf course superintendents in the country! The Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show keeps members up to date on technology, innovations, research, education and the most valuable tools that superintendents need to achieve their goals.

As CGSC Brian Powell, President of the Carolinas GCSA recently pointed out, golf course conditions remain the most important factor in whether golfers enjoy their game. Geoponics primary goal is to support superintendents, working together to keep golfers coming back for more.

See you at the Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show! Booth 2317.

About some of Geoponics featured products at Booth 2317:

Endurant Organic Turf Colorants: Learn to paint from the pros at Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show

• Used by West Coast Turf, Foster-Gardner in Palm Desert, Calif. to prepare soccer fields
• Used to prepare for the PGA Champions Tour on the Golf Channel. Read more here.
• Used to launch a new business to provide lawncare solutions during the California drought. Read here.
• Used to repair turfgrass in advance of a wedding when another brand of colorant turned the grass to a fake looking blue color.
• Used to get TV ready for a huge televised horse race event. Read more here.
• Buy Endurant organic turf paint here now.

Agriox: For anaerobic soils Visit www.soiloxygen.com 

Visit www.soiloxygen.com 

Penterra: Prevent frost delays, manage water

The fastest-acting soil surfactant to get water moving through the soil profile

Visit www.Penterra.net

See you at Booth 2317 at the Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show!

Lawn Picasso provides eco-friendly green lawns in California drought with Endurant organic colorants

A business is painting the town—and beyond—to combat drought and brown grass in the most ecofriendly way possible as California faces the worst drought in history.

Grass painting business launched to provide organic green lawn & water savings as California faces historic drought

Launching Lawn Picasso

Teresa Humphreys launched Lawn Picasso in May with two environmentally friendly tools helping take on the water challenge: Endurant organic turf colorants and a zero emissions sprayer from ProEdge.

Lawn Picasso opened in Livermore, California, a city located in Alameda County on the eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay area. Lawn Picasso is expanding to a larger canvass as the business is growing quickly to serve residential, commercial and municipal properties.

Environmental solutions

Humphreys is a longtime environmental steward in the eastern San Francisco Bay area. She is working diligently to share her values and the ideal solution provided by Endurant organic turf paint, a product offered by Naples, Fla.-based Geoponics.

“Education is paramount with this new concept. So, we really spend a lot of our time at community events, with city officials and with realtors; area marketing meetings with different groups, and allowing them to see and feel the end result with the Endurant product,” said Humphreys.

Award winning practices for water conservation

Husband Nathan Humphreys first found eco-friendly solutions to the brown grass, drought and water restrictions faced by California property owners and managers several years ago as director of facilities at The Athenian School, a school founded on environmental stewardship in 1965.

Many of the practices at the private school were proactive. When the drought continued, the practices became even more crucial to the property and region.

Endurant organic turf paint provided solutions for the 75-acre campus located in Danville, California, at the base of Mount Diablo. The school is a green school, water smart school and has used Endurant organic turf colorants to maintain that status while also maintaining optimal visual appeal.

Painting the town, expanding the canvas

As the drought worsened and lengthened, Humphreys realized more people needed help in understanding how to protect valuable natural resources—and that they could do so while still maintaining high standards for the looks of their landscapes.

She knew she could get the job done well and had the experience.

Humphreys spent months researching the best product and equipment to offer. ProEdge developer and designer Bill Johnson, of North Carolina, advised Humphreys that he and professional lawn care customers have long found Endurant Turf Colorant to be a superior product for the life of sprayers, eco-friendly aspects, ease of use and finished product.

“This is a brand new concept for many people in California, even though it’s been around for years. We used several products and found Endurant was our best option, primarily for its eco-friendly ingredients and longevity of the colorant,” Humphreys said.

Saving water & avoiding fines

Months into the drought, residents and government officials in affluent areas weren’t pleased with all the brown lawns. While many also seek environmental solutions, some homeowners (and even government officials as reported by TV investigative reporters here) were sneaking in extra watering at night to maintain their quality standards despite the water challenges & hefty fines for violating water restrictions.

Humphreys decided Endurant organic turf colorants could provide homeowners, municipalities, recreation centers, athletic fields, schools and parks a green lawn solution to their brown grass problem.

Using Endurant organic turf colorants and a zero-emissions sprayer from ProEdge, Humphreys is able to provide the natural looking, environmentally friendly and lush green lawns people long to maintain.

Regaining curb appeal means business is booming

There’s high visibility when you’re the one green lawn in the middle of a drought, Humphreys said.

As people become interested, they then learn it’s eco-friendly, is safe for pets and students and has a reasonable dry time to avoid tracking into buildings.

Lawns might average about 500 square feet in size with the starting costs to go from brown grass to green grass at about $200, depending upon the size of the lawn, she said.

With no rain in California, the grass isn’t growing and the Endurant organic turf colorant is lasting about 16 weeks with no discoloration, she said.

As for business, it’s growing fast.

“It’s been fantastic,” said Humphreys.

Interested in offering a green solution in your area? Contact Geoponics: info@GeoponicsCorp.com

1-877-ECO-GROW. www.GeoponicsCorp.com 

While there’s a wedding tradition: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue– blue turf was not the “something blue” that the bride had in mind. An old turf paint nearly ruined her wedding. Until an application of natural grass-colored green Endurant organic turf colorant repaired the blueish turf just before wedding day at a North Carolina golf course.

No more blue turf: Other grass paint brands fade to a fake-looking blueish colored turf

Endurant organic turf colorant applied on the blue-colored turf repaired the grass just in time for a wedding at Ridges Golf Club, located in the Smoky Mountains of Hayesville, NC this October.

Attempting to green up the property for eye appeal, golf course superintendent Daryck Beetham, who just recently began improving the course and property as part of the Ridges Golf Club’s new management from Sequoia Golf,  found a bottle of turf colorant in the chemical closet.

“I built a little green in front of the club house. I went into the chemical room and found a bottle that said it was green pigment. It didn’t come out the way I wanted. It turned out very blue,” said Beetham.

I panicked, he said.

Endurant Organic Turf Colorant provides natural looking green

“The staff at Geoponics called me back in minutes and came over and sprayed with their colorant,” said Beetham.

The woman getting married asked what we did about the blue turf just before the wedding day.

“‘We painted it for you,'” Beetham recalls telling her.

“She was ecstatic,” he said.

Beetham was very pleased with his first experience with Endurant Turf Colorant.

“It is like August Bermuda grass color,” he said.

Ridges Golf Club’s turf grass inclues Bermuda tees and fairways; Kentucky blue grass fescue mix rough and bent grass poa annual greens.

Up next for Endurant TC will probably be some par 3 tees, said Beetham.

Get natural green grass!  The professional’s choice in turf colorant is Endurant organic turf colorant. BUY NOW!