The Budget Crisis is the biggest issue facing golf, sports turf, and landscape management and few have answers.

First it was a water crisis, then fertilizer went sky high, and now budgets have all been cut to seriously low levels.   Managers are looking for ways to cut labor, fertilizer, pesticides, equipment costs, energy, and anything to reduce costs for a lower budget.

There is a solution. It is simple, affordable and it will fit into your budget.  It will improve the quality of your golf course, sports field, or landscape.

The solution is actually two things that have come together at the right time.

The Solution is fertigation, using a new generation of organically based liquid fertilizers that are half the price of low cost quick release dry fertilizers.  Consider it - Half the price of dry fertilizer applied automatically with simple affordable fertigation.

Fertigation has proven to be the best way to reduce labor, water, fertilizer, pesticides, and equipment, while improving plant quality.

Fertigation has been used for over 25 years on many of the top golf courses in the US and is being used on sports fields, landscapes with great success.  Across the market from casinos and hotels to school and college sports fields, managers are finding that fertigation has reduced operating costs, while improving the quality.

New Fertilizer Technology

The new liquid fertilizers are more efficient, which means less volume to ship, and are half the price of dry fertilizer.  They really work in improving soil health and can reduce or eliminate pesticides.    www.3teirtech.com 

The last element of the solution is what to do when you don’t have way to purchase the fertigation system to get started.  The answer - lease your fertigation system.

Get started today by emailing or calling us at Turf Feeding Systems at (800) 728-4504.

Reprioritize, says Michael Chaplinsky, founder and president of Turf Feeding Systems—the fertigation system that attaches to any irrigation system. Professional Grade Fertigation systems are affordable for, parks districts, private golf courses, government agencies and even homeowners with substantially-sized lots are turning to Turf Feeding Systems for precision irrigation that combines water with constant delivery of nutrients resulting in a lush, green lawn with a bountiful root system to keep it strong all season long.

Golf courses, says Chaplinsky, have some of the most sophisticated irrigation systems in place and have been using fertigation for years. Some of the finest golf courses—Spyglass Hill, Pebble Beach and The Broadmoor in Colorado, Springs—have fertigation systems.

The City of Colorado Springs has 72 fertigation systems in use on more than 450 acres of parks, sports fields and landscaping citywide. City officials embraced fertigation when it became evident that they could drastically reduce the maintenance budget by using Turf Feeding Systems versus the labor involved in applying dry fertilizer and the fact that constant delivery of nutrients through the water system results in an optimum plant rather than sporadic fertilization spring through fall.

If your landscaping is stressed and not flourishing, it’s likely the result of inappropriate watering and lack of nutrients. When the two—water and nutrients—are delivered in combination, the plant absorbs nutrients simultaneously with the water for better benefit. It could be compared to working out versus being a couch potato.

After all, if your landscaping isn’t thriving and looks spotty and stressed, no one will notice that the design is interesting.

Contact Turf Feeding Systems today at 800-728-4504  for information on the savings you can realize using fertigation.

Still nothing can replace the long summer afternoon spent rolling around on the lawn like kids once did.

Turf Feeding Systems to the rescue!

Turf Feeding Systems uses fertigation and high-analysis liquid fertilizers that add special, non-harmful, organic liquid nutrients to the water as it irrigates. That means, says founder Michael Chaplinsky, that the nutrients get directly to the plant where it needs food, resulting in a healthy root system—the foundation of a thick, lush plant, whether it’s a lawn or landscape plant.

Turf Systems relies on Growth Products, a specialty fertilizer manufacturer with its complete line of high-quality liquid fertilizers that can be injected through the irrigation system at a price at or below dry fertilizers. Plus the cost of labor to apply the dry fertilizer is eliminated.

Appropriate water and food are the two things that can return a stressed lawn into a soft carpet of green within one season.

Call Turf Feeding today at 800-728-4504.

Wasting water is an ecologist’s nightmare.

Plus it can be expensive to overwater using old-fashioned garden hoses. Even the labor costs of having dry fertilizer applied are increasing non-stop.

Michael Chaplinsky, founder and president of Turf Feeding Systems, spends his days meeting with groundskeepers, maintenance crews and government agencies seeking a solution to the high cost of watering and fertilizing the landscaping in their care. Turf Feeding Systems uses Growth Products, a specialty fertilizer line that manufactures high-quality liquid fertilizer that can be injected in the Turf Feeding irrigation system. “The beauty in this application is that the water amounts uses are precise, eliminating overwatering,” explains Chaplinsky. Plus the application of fertilizer in the water rather than using dry fertilizer, makes for an even application, eliminating waste and over-fertilizing.

Called “fertigation,” there’s no system to compete with the advantages of Turf Feeding Systems. That’s why cities, park districts and highway departments are including purchase of Turf Feeding Systems in their 2009 budgets.

For information, contact Turf Feeding Systems at 800-728-4504.

Turf Feeding Systems was retained by Pointe West, a major beach development on the western end of this stretch of coastline, to fertigate their landscaped areas. Pointe West purchased one fertigation system for the development’s Beach Club area, the central social gathering place in the development.

Pointe West’s initial plan was to give Turf Feeding’s fertigation system a try for a season to see if and how much it helped to improve the landscape and plantings on the beach. The hurdle in maintaining this landscaping had historically been that the development, being on the Gulf of Mexico, gets a constant salt spray. The beach sand has no nutrients in it inherently and the landscaping, which had been planted a mere two years earlier, looked stressed.

Improvement didn’t take long to show up. Shortly after the fertigation system was installed (in May 2006), the landscape perked up and began to look healthier than any time since it was planted. The Beach Club area began earning compliments from owners and guests for its healthy and highly-maintained appearance.

Turf Feeding added its Mosquito Blocker to the fertigation at Pointe West and this added protection eliminated the pesky critters altogether.

Pointe West was so pleased with the outcome that by July of this year they had already determined to add six more fertigation systems to their entire project. Mosquito Blocker will be added to every system making the development virtually mosquito-free.

Call Turf Feeding today at 800-728-4504.