Trees and shrubs need help when placed in urban settings.
   Trees in a forest usually thrive without the addition of fertilizer. But it is a different story for ornamental trees and shrubs in a landscape. They are subjected to unfavorable soil and environmental conditions.
   Many assume that a tree’s fertility needs are being met when the grass is fertilized. This may not be true. Turfgrass can act as a filter, trapping nutrients in the sod that would otherwise be available to the tree.    Urban soils are usually very low in humus and fertility. Leaves and other debris are removed, interrupting nature’s recycling program for nutrients and the accumulation of organic matter. Also, drying winds, summer suns, poor soil, insects and disease take their toll.
    The addition of fertilizer not only improves the appearance and health of trees and shrubs, but also enables them to better withstand insects and disease.

More Than Plant Food
   GreenGuard’s Vital-Green II is more than just a fertilizer. It enhances the plant’s entire ecosystem.
   Our proprietary blend is a complete, yet sensible, blend of organic and inorganic components providing high-quality macro- and micro-nutrients. The slow-release nitrogen (the most lacking in urban soils) is bound in organic molecules that is released in the soil by the same micro-organisms which break down other organic matter.
  Other ingredients include natural plant hormones (sea kelp extracts) known to promote cell division, as well as delay the aging process. Under stress conditions (heat, drought) hormone production in plants is severely limited, so the application of these extracts can help stimulate new root and bud development.
   Also included is an all natural wetting agent that enables the nutrients to move easily through the soil structure, suspending the nutrients in the root area and improving soil texture.
   Through independent research, the slow-release fertilizers developed for GreenGuard closely mimic what occurs in the natural setting, only with more accuracy and uniformity.

Why Feed the Soil?
   Nurserymen and orchardists have begun to accept that when the soil is adequately nourished plants respond with a natural health and vigor that outpaces conventional methods of feeding.
    Synthetic fertilizer ingredients contain nothing that feed the life in the soil.
When you feed the life in the soil with GreenGuard’s Vital-Green II, growing populations of microorganisms begin to accomplish many of the jobs that consume great amounts of your time, energy and money.
   Microorganisms help with fertilization by fixing nitrogen from the air, mineralizing soil nutrients and dissolving nutrients from rock. Microorganisms help with lawn de-thatching by decomposing thatch into valuable nutrients and humus, which in turn increase the water and nutrient holding capacity of the soil. Furthermore, microorganisms provide aeration and control many insect and disease problems by competition and predation.
   GreenGuard’s Vital-Green II has numerous benefits that cannot be quantified or qualified on any fertilizer label. It is widely accepted by researchers that most of the benefits we get from soil life have yet to be discovered.

The Right Way
   For trees and some shrubs, especially those growing in turfgrass areas, fertilizers are best injected directly into the root zone where it is needed. For specific nutrient deficiencies, fertilizers can be applied to the foliage or injected into the trunk of a tree.
   GreenGuard’s Vital-Green II is suspended in water and injected with a soil probe throughout the root zone. Up to 200 pounds of pressure may be used in more compacted soils. The applications points are spaced on a grid pattern.
   This optimum technique for trees and shrubs not only distributes the nutrients for more efficient absorption by the roots but also improves the porosity of the soil.

When to Fertilize
   Although maximum root development occurs during the fall and early spring, GreenGuard’s Vital-Green II slowly releases nutrients uniformly throughout the growing season and can be applied almost any time of the year.
   Remember, soils in the urban landscape have no natural nutrient recycling and need to be supplemented regularly.

Choose GreenGuard
GreenGuard’s Vital-Green II is the result of many years of research in the horticulture industry. It does more for your plants – and gives you more value per dollar – than any other fertilizer on the market.