Most of the following objectives have been met by using BioVam  Mycorrhizae inoculants and Biosol Mix fertilizer on lawns.  Some were simply not observed because I wasn't able to test that particular situation.

Goals to be Achieved

Observed Results of BioVam Lawns

• Substantially reduce water use.

• Substantially reduce pesticide applications.

• Substantially reduce maintenance costs.

• Be 100% Environmentally safe.

• Provide a lawn that is drought tolerant.

• Reduce the mowing requirements.

• Apply only Organic fertilizers.

• Develop a lawn tolerant to heavy traffic.

• Develop a competitiveness against weeds.

• The lawn must grow in direct sun and shade.

• Develop more new growth.

• Develop a deeper root system.

• Reduces sod transplant losses and planting shock.

• Increases tolerance to soil salinity and polluted soil conditions.

• Over grow Necrotic Ring Spot damage.

• Over grow Fairy Ring damage.

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"Chemical Lawns" dry out.

Just on the other side of Snoopy and out in various places of this lawn, it was starting to dry out as soon as the weather turned warm.  This was the plight year after year of a lawn subjected to "chemical care."  This was due to shallow roots that could not hold water very long.

(Untreated Lawn on Left)

"BioVam  Grown Lawns" are easy to keep green.

Eight weeks later after several days of triple digit temperatures, and 20 mile an hour winds, the same lawn after being treated with BioVam  and Biosol Mix.  There are NO DRY SPOTS!  We feel that soil conditions will dictate how much water is retained.  We found that the root growth was much deeper in our turf grass after treating with BioVam.

(Treated Lawn on Left)

BioVam  Mycorrhiza Fungi travel plant to plant.

This is three weeks after the BioVam  application.  I watered by hand and I did not water to the right of that line.  My neighbor didn't water at all!   This was before it got hot.  The effect of the Mycorrhizae showed green creeping six feet into my neighbors lawn.  The BioVam  was applied at 1 quart per 1,000 square feet of lawn.  I used 1/2 gallon on 1,800 sq feet. (This was before an improvement to BioVam  by B. Probiotics (inventor and manufacturer of BioVam,) which now allows one quart to treat 2,000 square feet).

(Treated Lawn Left of Line, Untreated Lawn Right of Line)

The Roots go deeper into the soil.

What about the roots?  The lawn roots were no longer shallow sod type roots.  They had extended 17 inches into the soil.  The water at the bottom of this picture is from my washing down the side of the hole to expose the roots.  The roots extended 4 inches into the water.  This lawn has become a totally different lawn because of the action of the BioVam  Mycorrhizae.  This picture was taken at 9 weeks.  This soil is basically clay in texture.  It has been loosened up by the mycorrhiza.  As we dug down below where the roots were in this soil, we noticed that water was not soaking into the soil.  Above that point, water was able to penetrate the clay soils that had been penetrated by the roots and mycorrhiza.

(Roots depth of a Treated Lawn)

A Healthier Root System.

The lateral roots in this lawn are huge! These roots run laterally below the surface of the ground. It is from these roots that new grass shoots grow. This explains why there is easily a 50% increase in new shoots in this lawn. Some of these roots are thicker than 3/16 and will soon be 1/4 inch thick. The vertical roots now make a sod that is beyond 14 inches thick.

(Lateral roots of a treated lawn)

Fewer Clippings in the first week.

The first week I only obtained one lawnmower catcher bag full of clippings (instead of 5). This was true for the third and subsequent weeks also. Growth in BioVam  Grown lawns is focused more upon new shoots and roots than on top growth.

(Treated Lawn on Left)

(Treated Lawn on Left)

Moss struggles in BioVam  Grown Lawns

This picture taken October 17, 1998 at a customer's lawn in the Spokane Valley, illustrates how grass out competes moss growing in a BioVam  Grown lawn.  The Moss can not compete with the grass and as the grass grows up through the Moss and gets thicker, the Moss gets displaced.

(Treated Lawn on Left)

This Dandelion at a customer site does not have Mycorrhiza Inoculant in the soil with it.  It is about 20 feet away from a lawn that has been treated with Mycorrhiza inoculants.  The next picture shows what Dandelions look like in a treated lawn.

(Untreated Lawn on Left)

These Dandelions were present when this lawn was inoculated with BioVam  Mycorrhiza.  In BioVam  Grown lawns the grass is the dominant plant.  As the grass thickened and the Mycorrhizal process became entrenched these Dandelions, unlike the one above, are finding it difficult to compete with the mycorrhiza treated grass.  They are laying limp on the ground and their leaves are turning yellow.  The dandelion populations stay low, but don't seem to be eliminated.  Each year, we pull about 6-10 dandelions out of our 1,800 square foot test lawn.  

(Treated Lawn on Left)

A sheet of steel was left on this lawn for 2.5 days.  When it was lifted up, the grass underneath was all yellow.  It stayed yellow for more than a week. 

(Untreated Lawn on Left)

The same plate as above was left on a lawn inoculated with Mycorrhiza for 2.5 days.  When the plate was lifted up, the grass was as green as that which was not covered.  It was pressed down.  After watering for a short time, you couldn't tell where the steel plate had been placed on this lawn.

(Treated Lawn on Left)