Growth Products introduces companion

Granular microbial designed for horticultural and landscape plantings.

White Plains, N.Y. -- The Landscaper's Companion is now available in eight-ounce foil packs and in bulk five- and 15-pound E-Z Pails. The Landscaper's Companion is versatile and can be used on deciduous trees, evergreens, shrubs and landscaping materials including annuals, perennials, vegetables, baskets, pots and sod. It's ideally used during the plating process or incorporated into the soil for general maintenance of existing landscaped areas.

The Landscaper's Companion contains all of the same ingredients contained in liquid Companion, but in granular form. Each pound contains 64 Billion colony-forming units of Bacillus, a beneficial and prolific rhizosphere bacterium. Other ingredients include kelp extract, 17 natural L-amino acids, humic acid and a natural wetting agent.

Growth Products  also has included the benefits of slow release nitrogen from Nitro-30. Plants are slowly fed nitrogen avoiding unwanted surge growth. With 25percent Viterra Gelscape included, a unique water-control polymer gel, the Landscaper's Companion will improves the soil's ability to absorb and hold water, gradually releasing moisture between waterings.