Eco-yards™ Spray (Compost Tea)
Eco-yards™ Spray is an aerated compost tea spray, made with high quality compost and organic fertilizers. Our chemical-free yard care service is to spray the leaves of all your trees (up to 40 feet or 12 m high), your shrubs, lawn and other plants and soil. The Eco-yards™ Spray service is offered three times a season in Calgary and region to bring more life and health to your plants.
Eco-yards™ Compost Tea Spray is a probiotic for your yard. Eco-yards™ Spray is unique in that it not only fertilizes, it is rich with the beneficial soil micro-organisms present on leaf surfaces and in the soil. These tiny micro-organisms (beneficial bacteria, fungus, nematodes and protozoa) store nutrients and interact with plants at their roots and on leaf surfaces to deliver those nutrients to the plants.
Eco-yards™ Spray builds the micro-organic ecosystem (or soil foodweb) in your yard so that your plants can get the nutrients they need from your soil. Your plants will be healthier and healthy plants tend to resist diseases and troublesome insects and need less water and fertilizer.
"We used to have compost spread on our lawn every season.
Then we found Laureen Rama's Eco-yards™ Spray. Our lawn is consistently the
nicest on the block and we don't baby it - we just had Laureen's spray."
— Mary Jo Fairweather
"I have a Toba Hawthorn that had a rust problem - it was
about 60% infested. By the end of the first season of Eco-yards™ Spray there
was only a trace of rust - it's the healthiest it's ever been. I also have
had very little winter dieback on my other plants even though we had an early
freeze. I have signed up for this year!"
— Sarah Crow
(A client's healthy hollyhocks benefitting from 2 years of Eco-yards™ Spray)
On the left: South-facing front lawn with poor topsoil, overseeded for a year
and Eco-yards™ Spray applied.
On the right: lawn had been treated with Weed
N' Feed for a year and now - no treatment.
Soil micro-organisms are the basis of all life on the planet and have been depleted by the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. You can be part of restoring the soil by signing up for the Eco-yards™ Spray Service.
Good for the planet! Good for your yard! Good for you!
Sign up for an Eco-yards™ Spray Program today! Call Laureen Rama at 403-969-1176 or sign-up below.
Eco-yards™ Spray Programs
Enhance - 3 times/growing season on a regular-sized City yard. (e.g. May-June, August, October) Investment: $84.00 incl. GST per spray or $215.25 incl. GST prepaid by Dec. 31st. $226.80 incl. GST prepaid between Jan. 1- Mar. 1, $239.40 incl. GST prepaid after Mar 2nd.
Tailored Enhance - spraying intervals tailored to the needs of your yard,
soil biology and chemistry tests, and a spray designed by Laureen for the soil
conditions on your property. Investment: Call Laureen at 969-1176 to discuss.
If you have a property larger than a regular-sized City yard, prices will be quoted for your property.
How is it Made?
Eco-yards™ Spray is made by taking quality compost, putting it in filtered water, adding lots of great organic fertilizers (e.g. kelp, fish hydrolysate), and aerating it heavily for 24 hours or more. The micro-organisms in the compost multiply very quickly, due to the high oxygen levels, to make a rich soup of beneficial soil micro-organisms that will really perk up all the plants in your yard and build the long-term health of your soil and plants.
What if my Yard is Really in Poor Shape?
Extra programs to complement the Eco-yards™ Spray may be helpful if your yard is really in poor shape from years of chemical use or neglect. Restoring organic matter in your soil will give the micro-organisms in the Eco-yards™ Spray a home and some nutrients to feed to your plants. We offer services that include:
- adding compost to your lawn and beds
- spreading additional organic fertilizers.
Sign up for an Eco-yards™ Spray program in Calgary today! Call Laureen Rama at 403-969-1176 or email info@eco-yards.com.
"The people renovating my yard said I have the nicest grass they have ever dug up - the soil is so soft. And my apple tree had always had aphids under the new leaves and ants farming them. Since you have been spraying the Eco-yards™ Spray, the undersides of those leaves have been clean."
-Carol Atkinson
“I had the Eco-yards™ spray services last year. I only watered the lawn
3 or 4 times that summer. The lawn stayed green and healthy and yet it didn’t
grow faster so I didn’t have to mow more often. The shrubs and perennials
looked healthier; the leaves are shiny and a nicer colour. The perennials flowered
nicely. The shrubs and perennials didn’t need anything in the way of
fertilizer. The evergreens have perked up, they have a nicer, greener colour
and less brown spots. I’m signing up for the service again this year!”
— Norma Lepine
“I have noticed a dramatic change in my yard in the few
years that you have been helping with landscaping and providing Eco-yards™ Spray.
I was surprised this year to notice how my huge forty year old mountain ash
and poplar trees have improved. They were diseased which mostly showed up in
severely disfigured leaves. This year the leaves were mostly normal and lush
thanks to all that you have done!
— Joan Caplan