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Product Highlight - XSoil
X-SOIL What Is It Good For?
X-Soil is a soil amendment we carry from our friends at the Carbon Earth Company. It is a soil amendment that can be used on all grass types at any time of year with no fear of burning the lawn or harming the soil.In fact, it’s just the opposite - this product is great in the heat of summer and is recommended to be applied at higher rates of 10-20 lbs/1,000 sq ft.X-SOIL is essentially the base material of all Carbon Earth products, bio-char infused with chicken ...

Featured Creator - Bush League Lawns
Meet Brandon from Bush League Lawns
We are excited to announce a new product line now being offered on the Yard Mastery website! Ecologel, the makers of Hydretain and CytoGro/SeaXtra are now releasing their line of professional golf products to the DIY market: BioPro.For a great overview of the 4 staple products, Brandon from Bush League Lawns put together this video and applied them.
Note: In this video Brandon has 2.5 gallon jugs - Yard Mastery is currently offering single 1 gallon jugs ...

Featured Product - Hydretain
Hydretain
What does Hydretain do?Hydretain is a pretty incredible product that can help you save a ton on your water bills and keep your lawn green during periods of high heat.Which is especially important as we hit peak summer.What it does is draw humidity out of the air and bring that water down into your grass root system! Now what that means is that because you’re getting water sucked into the roots from the air, you can significantly reduce your watering schedule on your lawn!Hydretain...

Featured Creator - Jeremy With The Greener Lawn
Meet Jeremy of The Greener Lawn
Jeremy of The Greener Lawn is one of the OGs of our community. It has been really awesome to watch his progression over the last few years to where he now does some private coaching for folks just learning lawn care.In today's featured creator video, you can see Jeremy applying his patented "Power Hit" but now it's boosted with a fresh new granular fertilizer and he calls it the "SUPER Power Hit"
Check out the video using the link above as well as Jeremy's T...

New Product Release - CytoGro/SeaXtra
CytoGro/SeaXtra
We are excited to announce yet another addition to the Yard Mastery store, a bio-stimulant called CytoGro. This is a product from our friends at Ecologel (makers of Hydretain).CytoGro is a highly potent bio-stimulant formulated from seaweed and is used to promote roots and shoots. CytoGro is a professional product and is highly concentrated. Use rates are .8oz/1000 for an initial application and .4oz/1000 monthly thereafter. Read that again, .4oz/1000 is the monthly sugges...

Featured Creator - Florida Lawns
Meet Johnny Roton with Florida Lawns
This week we are featuring creator Johnny Roton and his beautiful St Augustine yard. He recently applied 7-0-20 Summer Stress Blend as a way to give his lawn a boost of micros and potash heading into summer. You can see some closeup shots of the blend and see all the various elements in the blend.
Check out the video using the link above as well as Johnny's Florida Lawns YouTube channel.
The 7-0-20 Summer Stress blend is great for all grass types in su...

New Product Release- Sunnilands Liquids
Sunniland Minors Blend
Introducing 1 and 2.5 gallon sizes of liquid Sunniland Minors Blend! This blend makes a great general purpose micronutrient supplement for your lawn, ok for all grass types. It contains some of the highest iron concentrations of any product we carry coming in at 5% total Fe. Minors Blend also contains essential minor elements Zinc, Manganese and Magnesium.
This is an excellent choice for summer to keep the color of the lawn without pushing top growth. If you are in ...

Featured Creator - Chuck With Dadding All Day
Meet Chuck with D.A.D, Dadding All Day
Have you heard of the "Double Dark" lawn cocktail? If not, you can check out this video by our friend Chuck from "Dadding All Day" as he applies it to his lawn.
Check out the video using the link above as well as Chuck's Dadding All Day YouTube channel.
You can also see some strong results here with Justin T's Centipede in Foley, AL showing domination from his "Double Dark" application:
The Double Dark is a mix of the 0-0-2 MicroGreene and the 7-0-...

New Product Release- Summer Stress Blend Granular Fertilizer
7-0-20 Summer Stress Blend
Summer Stress Blend granular fertilizer. There are three ways you may want to use it. First, if you have a soil test indicating you are low in potassium, then Summer Stress Blend can help to correct that as it contains 20% potash which is much higher than most other products we carry. Apply twice in summer and retest in fall to see where your levels reside.The second is for those who have lawns recovering from disease or insect stress, or currently suffering heat s...

Featured Creator - The Lawn Guardian, Ben Hicks
Meet Ben, The Lawn Guardian
Ben, The Lawn Guardian, is a Yard Mastery team member and a dedicated DIYer. He has had quite the task this year learning a new, much larger lawn - congrats on the new house Ben! In this video he sets strategy based on information taken from a soil test similar to Yard Mastery's Soil Test kit. The second half of the video he uses 18-0-1 GreenPunch to green-up his lawn, push roots and pack in the carbon.
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New Product Release - XGN DIY Lawn Fertilizer 8-1-8
8-1-8 XGN DIYHomogenous Turf and Ornamental Fertilizer
Carbon release, root promoting technology developed by Carbon Earth features the homogenization of n-p-k inputs with a carbon (biochar) carrier and infused with root hair promoting peptides. This unique process allows Carbon Earth products to provide necessary conventional fertilizer inputs for plant response predictability, while also focusing on soil tilth, health, and root zone performance.
Price includes shipping to your door!
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Featured Creator - Jimmy Lewis
Meet Jimmy Lewis
Jimmy Lewis had some fun comparing results in his cool season turf in Utah between the 8-1-8 XGN DIY Homogenous Turf and Ornamental Fertilizer and ProPeat Lawn Fertilizers.One of our goals at Yard Mastery is to bring to market quality products that we think would work great for DIYers.XGN (XGreen) has been around now for 2 seasons and is a great fert for Low Nitrogen applications but also boasts higher potassium than most ferts. It's also got that slow release chicken manur...