A1Lawn Hydrate Plus Lawn Wetting Agent - 1L (500m2)

A1Lawn Hydrate Plus wetting Agent offers both soil penetrant qualities and the ability to aid water holding capacity, thereby improving water movement through the root zone and improving water distribution within the root zone.

Research worldwide has shown the initial cause of dry patch is the build-up of naturally produced waxes and lipids around the sand/soil particles. When these coated sand/soil particles dry out they become hydrophobic (water-repellent) and the root zone is unable to hold water. Dry patch usually appears during periods of dry weather as small isolated patches of thin, stressed water repellent turf. The symptoms can affect all turf grass species but initially are more apparent on the shallower rooted species i.e. annual meadow grass where total die back of the plant can occur very quickly.

Beneath the surface in these affected areas the soil is extremely dry and will not easily re-wet. Research in the UK has shown that the build-up of waxes and lipids around the sand/soil particles that cause dry patch are concentrated at the soil thatch interface and this area is referred to as the hydrophobic zone.