4 Sustainable solutions Turf that reduces your environmental impact All turf is green, but some turfs are greener than most. These are the long-lasting turfs that consume fewer resources throughout their lives – at establishment and in day-to-day management and maintenance. chemical applications. 4turf ®’s drought-tolerance also keeps professional pitches, parks and amenity grassland looking greener for longer, and reduces your need for that scarce resource, irrigation water. To improve the sustainability of our turf solutions, we offer a range of concepts that are better adapted to environmental stress, and that make fewer demands on your time and resources. ProNitro® seed coating and 4turf ® ryegrasses are two of the strongest environmental friendly choices you can make for turf management. The seed mixtures you choose when preparing new turf, renovating or overseeding existing turf, can produce longterm savings of your own and environmental resources. 4turf® for low-input management Super-resilient 4turf ® ryegrasses are ideal for the amenity sector. With its exceptional disease resistance and winter hardiness, 4turf ® requires less maintenance and fewer ProNitro® needs less water to germinate and establish ProNitro® is a persistent, low-input, flexible and sustainable solution for sports, recreational areas and landscaping. Our ProNitro® seed coating with Hydroactive water management technology ensures better use of the water in the soil surrounding each seed. It’s such an efficient way of increasing a seed’s access to water, it decreases the volume of water normally needed for successful germination and establishment by up to 15%. At the same time, the precisely targeted fertiliser in the seed coat eliminates the need for seed-bed fertiliser while reducing the leaching of N fertiliser by 50%.
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