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Peak Sand Analysis Texture Only

It’s Not Too Late for Soil Analysis!

We can establish that quickly with the Peak Sand Texture Only Analysis. Using laser diffraction, the laboratory measures the actual percentages of sand, silt and clay in your rootzone and plots the result on the Soil Texture Triangle. A soil test that gives us something far more useful than guesswork. We will instantly know whether your green genuinely needs more mineral material — or whether years of conventional top dressing have already pushed it towards the excessively sandy conditions I call Peak Sand. This information can completely change the autumn renovation programme.

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Phosphite Ion

Phosphite and Disease Resistance

Phosphite (PO₃³⁻) is a reduced form of phosphate (PO₄³⁻), the familiar phosphorus source in traditional fertilisers. Although the two compounds are chemically related, their behaviours in plants and soils differ significantly. Phosphite is highly soluble and readily absorbed through both roots and foliage, making it a highly efficient delivery mechanism for phosphorus-related benefits, including disease and pest resistance, acting as a trigger for some of the plant's remarkable natural defence mechanisms.

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pH scale

Fixing low pH without Lime

As standard soil analysis offerings are generally obsessed with chemistry, a very low pH is often interpreted as a chemical imbalance, which, of course, it is. The question of why those acid cations are dominant on the soil colloid, remains unaddressed in most cases. Instead it seems that many advisers are jumping straight to the temporary, artificial correction advice to add lime, and as we have seen, for fine turf, that can be dangerous advice.

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