applications

Applications: Value Comparison

Organic Fertilizers, a Bargain, Synthetic Fertilizers Expensive

Although Bradfield Organics® Fertilizers may cost about $.0025 per sq ft more to apply on any given application, long term total cost of maintaining a landscape is comparable if not significantly less.

	Bradfield Organics®	Name Brand Synthetic
	50# 3-1-5 All purpose	16# bag 29-3-4 Turf only
Nutrients in bag	100%	36% (64% unknown inert)
Coverage	5000 sq ft	5000 sq ft
Cost	$22 to $24	$10 to $12
Cost per lb	$.44	$.75
Cost per sq ft coverage	$.0048	$.0024
Applications	3 per year	4 to 5 per year
Water	about 50% and infrequent	Frequent & Expensive
Aeration	Never	Annually & Expensive
Thatch removal	Never	Annually & Expensive
Pesticide applications	Rare	3 times Annually & Expensive

100% of organics stay on property and build soil fertility. What’s good this year gets better the next. Over 50% of water soluble Synthetic fertilizers run off and become a cost to someone somewhere in dealing with nitrate and phosphate pollution of water ways, lakes and ponds. This causes Soil Fertility to slowly degrade. Plants become totally dependent on the next fix of synthetic fertilizers and are thus under constant stress. Much like a drug addict.

Organics have low plant mortality. Annual replacement cost with synthetics is high. Synthetic Fertilizers and their accompanying pesticides have significant health cost ramifications over time: People & pets.