outlook_e43_bannerGypsum is a natural mineral used as a soil amendment and conditioner for improving overall soil quality. A long-time practice in the agriculture industry, the secret is out on the many benefits gypsum can offer home gardeners and landscape enthusiasts looking to boost their soil’s productivity. This multi-purpose soil amendment provides a variety of soil-saving qualities that improve soil, resulting in more fruitful harvests, healthier plants, and increased production.

 
The Many Benefits of Gypsum
As a soil amendment, gypsum offers a variety of benefits that improve soil structure and overall health, resulting in healthier plants and higher crop yields. Among these benefits:
  • Gypsum Loosens Heavy and Clay Soils
    Gypsum aerates soil by helping soil particles to stick together, creating micro-channels within the soil for nutrients, air, and water to move through. This gathering of particles loosens up even the most compact clay soils and also results in enhanced oxygen penetration, as well as water infiltration and drainage.
  • Gypsum Helps Leach out Harmful Materials
    Because gypsum creates these micro-channels within the soil, harmful materials such as de-icing salts, pet urine, and salt water are able to leach out of the soil more quickly. This is especially valuable in areas where hurricanes or irrigation systems create a salty soil environment. Gypsum will even restore the telltale brown spots along driveways and sidewalks from salt damage.
  • Gypsum Adds Calcium
    For centuries, gypsum has been used effectively as a way to add calcium to soil without altering soil pH. Calcium is essential in helping plants to create vigorous root systems, as well as to take up the nutrients they need from the soil.
  • Gypsum Improves Soil Structure
    The ability of gypsum to improve air and water penetration, in combination with added calcium, ultimately yields a significantly improved soil structure. This not only helps plants to better take in necessary nutrients, but it also allows roots and established seeds to spread and grow more freely.
  • Gypsum Promotes Efficient Water Management
    Compact soils prevent efficient use of water. The enhanced water infiltration and drainage provided by gypsum creates a soil environment that can use water more efficiently, meaning less water needs to be applied, and nutrient runoff is significantly decreased.
Gypsum is easy to use, and can be applied at any time of the year, though a popular time to apply is in spring, in order to correct salt-damaged lawns after the winter. Gypsum is easily applied with any spreader, or even by hand. Gypsum will not burn turf, and is nearly impossible to over apply. Application is encouraged at the beginning of each growing season to ensure that soil is properly conditioned and ready for plants to effectively take up nutrients.
 
Encap Fast Acting Gypsum is the leading gypsum product on the market. Made from the most pure calcium, Encap Fast Acting Gypsum is finely ground to promote fast, enhanced uptake by plants. Its pelletized form allows for fast product break down and long lasting results, without the dust or mess found with the use of traditional gypsum products.
 
In addition, Encap Fast Acting Gypsum is blended with their patented Advanced Soil Technology, which holds calcium in the root zone where it is needed, even after it rains. This means longer lasting results with fewer applications. The gypsum combined with AST improves soil by providing better water and air infiltration, preventing crusting, and improving structure of clay soils.
 
Whether you’re looking to add calcium to your soil, or correct salt-damaged turf, Encap Fast Acting Gypsum is fast, effective, and easy to use.
 
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