One of the most popular uses of Endurant TE in turfgrass management is Endurant TE mixed with other products as an indicator dye. It saves money and provides lasting turf enhancement with naturally vibrant green turf color. Learn how it works in this short article.
[caption id="attachment_637" align="alignleft" width="630"] Endurant TE is colorant used on actively growing grass for turf enhancement. Endurant TE is often used in turfgrass management as an indicator dye alternative because of its natural vibrant green grass color with lasting turf enhancement and cost savings compared with other spray indicators. Purchase Endurant TE at www.TurfPaint.net[/caption]
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New England pops with color during the fall. Now a tree specialist is looking to keep the region vibrantly colorful throughout more of the year using Endurant color enhancers for turf and mulch.
[caption id="attachment_738" align="alignleft" width="640"] Endurant colorants provide color throughout New England & throughout the seasons, sprucing up mulch without the risk to plant health of over-mulching & boosting natural turfgrass color for consistency.[/caption]
After discovering the wow-factor provided by Geoponics’ line of Endurant colorants, including Endurant turf colorants and Endurant mulch colorants, New England Arborists, a Connecticut-based company, is offering residential and corporate clients ways to keep mulch and turfgrass healthy and color enhanced.
Customers are blown away. It’s like I’m telling them how to get to Mars in 10 minutes. At first, they don’t know what I’m talking about. Then, when they see how Endurant colorants look, the enthusiasm is quite something. ~Terry Ryan, owner of New England Arborists & NEA Spray
Achieving the best performance of colorants on turf grass requires simple preparation prior to application. Answering the following questions is key to successfully applying colorants to the turf.
This brief Q&A guide is geared especially toward helping sod growers, golf course superintendents and other landscape managers of large properties. Home lawn users check out this blog for some particulars to help with smaller grass painting jobs. Professionals and home lawn users can also find more tips on how to paint turf here.
Keith Eubanks, Geoponics Territory Manager, shares the difference between paints and pigments while offering tips on when and how to use each turf color enhancement option.
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When looking to turn your brown lawn to green grass, you have many options. Mostly you want a natural green lawn at a great price that is environmentally friendly and easy to maintain. Endurant turf colorant is lawn paint that provides natural, lasting, even green color for a vibrant lawn quickly and safely.
The visual, aesthetic appeal of green grass does not require harmful chemicals or excessive water and fertilizer usage. Endurant turf colorants provides the optimal look without the economic and environmental expense.
But what is Endurant turf colorant?
Not all green grass paints, colorants, dyes or pigments are created equally.
Variations in quality on the market today are what have made Endurant turf colorants and lawn paints standout as the choice among professionals and experts in the field of turfgrass management and growth. Turf professionals, event managers, golf course superintendents and athletic field supervisors have been using Endurant for huge televised events and elite golf course properties, among other uses, for many years.
Endurant offers high quality while also being affordable and easy to use for home lawns. Endurant turf colorants and lawn paints cost much less than practices of overseeding, over-watering and over-fertilizing.
Often the words lawn paint, turf colorant, grass dye and turf pigment are used interchangeably but actually the terms have different meanings technically. Endurant green grass paints and lawn colorants are the optimal choice for green grass.
Endurants superiority is best understood by understanding these terms:
Pigment, paint, colorant and dye defined:
Paint:
A combination of a pigment, a vehicle or base such as water, a binder and a surfactant.
Dye:
A reactive product that responds to the surface it is used on based on whether each have positive or negative charges. Dye is a water soluble and ionic substance. Dye is generally used in water, turning all of the water the color of the dye and then the object to be colored is submerged into the dye. For practical purposes, a dye in this sense is not used on a surface such as grass, which cannot be submerged into dyed water the way a fabric could be. Application of dye on grass is inconvenient and inconsistent. Spraying a dye would lead to very uneven coloring results.
Colorant:
A general terms used for anything that applies color, including paint, dye, pigments or any other substances that add color to an object.
Pigment:
The dry substance used to create paints and other colorants.
Endurant is a colorant. More specifically, Endurant is a paint.
We often think of paint for walls or canvas, but Endurant grass paint is made specifically to adhere evenly on grass. Endurant is a water-based paint that contains pigment.
Here’s why Endurant turf colorant and Endurant green grass paint is exactly what you want for turning brown, dormant, dead or patchy uneven colored grass to natural, evenly colored green grass that is vibrant, natural-looking and lasting:
Endurant is made with organic pigments. These pigments are selected for superior quality so that when fading occurs, as occurs with all colorants exposed to weather and elements over time, Endurant fades evenly and on tone. Endurant stays green due to the high quality pigments used. Lower quality pigments often fade to blue. Endurant on the other hand retains its natural green color over time.
Unlike a dye, such as food coloring, a lawn treated with Endurant during heat and direct sunlight will not burn or be damaged by the frequent combination of dyes being combined with fertilizers—which also damage ground water and can cause environmental harm overtime.
Endurant is a paint, which includes pigment, binders and surfactants so the color stays on the specific type of surface it was created for—grass blades. Endurant’s highly specialized binders are made for excellent adherence to grass surfaces specifically. These binders are made to penetrate the turf grass blade’s unique waxy, oily surfaces. Further the binders are enduring- they are specially formulated to last on turfgrass for weeks or even months depending on the frequency of mowing and rate of grass growth, among other factors.
Endurant surfactants are specially designed so Endurant spreads evenly on the grass blades and lawn. This even coverage is essential to Endurant’s superiorly natural look.
Dye, such as food coloring, would work by dying the soil and the roots of the plant, but would not adhere to the grass surface. Dyes are often mixed with fertilizer, to help green the grass and over fertilizing contributes to contaminated water and stressing grass during heat. Most of all, dyes do not look natural on grass because they cannot produce consistent, reliable results.
Lawn dye, when the word dye is used technically in the way described above, does not create a natural green grass color and can produce quite inconsistent results.
The high quality nature of Endurant’s binders, surfactants and pigments make Endurant colorants the number one choice for turf professionals, sod growers and especially home lawns. Endurant provides instant curb appeal and a gorgeous look at a fraction of the environmental and economic costs of over-watering and over-fertilizing.
Applying Endurant Turf Paint to #Zoysia in common areas in south Florida
Benefits of Endurant turf paint include:
Natural Color
Easy to Use
Affordable
Concentrated
Zoysia grass is a popular warm season perennial turf grass variety in coastal areas. While any of the colors in the Endurant turf colorant line are suitable for use on zoysia grass, most people prefer the Endurant Perennial Rye as their colorant of choice for this warm season grass. Whether zoysia grass is yellowing or experiencing dormancy, Endurant turf colorant provides optimal results on zoysia.
Zoysia grass is a densely growing grass variety that may be slow to green-up in the spring. Zoysia responds to drought by turning brown and going dormant quite quickly. During an absence of rain or irrigation, zoysia grass stays dormant for extended periods of time. Once irrigation or rainfall resumes, zoysia grass will regain its green color. In the mean time, Endurant turf paint is often used to keep the green color of the zoysia grass in the most economical and environmentally friendly way. Endurant turf paint offers the optimal agronomic results on zoysia grass.
Painting dormant warm season grasses such as Zoysia, Bermuda, St. Augustine and Centipede is increasingly popular as a maintenance strategy to keep green grass color of lawns, sports fields and golf courses throughout the year. Painting with Endurant turf colorant is replacing the old maintenance strategy of overseeding. Overseeding is unnecessarily expensive, leads to transition challenges, creates agronomic problems and is less environmentally sustainable when compared with using Endurant turf paint. Furthermore, Endurant turf colorant provides year round aesthetic appeal unmatched by other paint varieties that often fade into unnatural color. Endurant is long lasting and fades on tone-- so the grass stays green.
Endurant turf paint is environmentally friendly and eliminates the costly need to overseed lawns and turf grass with cool season grasses such as rye grass.
Benefits to painting Zoysia and other warm season grasses with Endurant include eliminating competition for nutrients and sunlight between the overseeded grass variety and the warm season grass. This competition leads to transition related problems that can be avoided by choosing to paint with Endurant turf colorant versus overseeding.
Fewer maintenance practices, such as mowing, in addition to reducing the usage of harsh chemicals, fertilizers and herbicides are additional benefits of choosing Endurant turf colorant instead of overseeding.
Zoysia grass is a particularly dense warm season grass variety. Endurant's high concentrations of organic pigments combined with binders made especially for excellent adherence to turfgrass makes Endurant an excellent colorant choice for homeowners, golf course superintendents and lawn maintenance professionals who are seeking optimal aesthetic, agronomic, economic and environmentally sustainable practices.
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Applying grass paint to Bermuda tees
Bermuda grass and especially the dark green variety of Celebration Bermuda grass is quite popular. Painting Celebration Bermuda grass with Endurant has long been a popular maintenance strategy among turf grass professionals and golf course superintendents. Painting golf course practice tees with Endurant provides excellent color contrast and playability for a look of instant overseed at less cost economically and environmentally.
Why paint Celebration Bermuda grass with Endurant turf colorant?
Endurant turf colorants come in super-concentrated varieties of organic pigments combined with binders made specifically for excellent adherence to turfgrass.
The super concentration of dark green color available in the line of Endurant colorants makes Endurant an optimal choice for use on the deep, dark green color that makes Celebration Bermuda grass so popular.
Easy to use-- all you need is water, Endurant and a sprayer
Economical-- Endurant is known as liquid overseed at a fraction of the cost of traditional overseed
Environmentally sustainable compared with overseeding-- which also leads to over-watering and over-fertilizing
Long lasting and provides year round green grass even in drought or dormancy
Natural green color that fades on tone-- meaning the grass stays green and does not fade to an unnatural color
Celebration Bermuda grass is a popular grass for sports fields, golf courses and other places where there is heavy traffic because of its wear tolerance.
Endurant turf colorants provide an excellent replacement to winter ryegrass overseeding of Celebration Bermuda grass and other bermuda grass varieties.
The environmental benefits of using Endurant turf colorant has increased Endurant's popularity among professionals and homeowners. Using Endurant leads to green fairways, lush looking lawns and beautified common areas using less water, fewer pesticides, less fertilizer and fewer herbicides versus overseeding.
Golf course superintendents were among the first turf managers to witness the beneftis of using Endurant turf colorants instead of overseeding with ryegrass each winter. As golf courses superintendents found increasing success and Endurant became the turfgrass professional’s top choice, painting home lawns with Endurant is now gaining popularity as well.
This popularity has led to conserving natural resources, spending less money, enhanching the quality of celebration bermudagrass and meeting aesthetic expecations of golf club members, home owners’ associations, athletes and prospective home buyers.
Benefits to painting Celebration Bermuda grass and other warm season grass varieties versus overseeding include fewer mowings while non-overseeded grass is not growing during dormancy; less fuel and labor hours; less wear on equipment, less water; less fertilizer; fall color retention; earlier spring time greenup; fewer disturbances and delays of game.
As celebration Bermuda grass is popular for its deep, dark green color the super-concentrated colorant options provided by Endurant’s super-concentration of organic pigments combined with binders made specifically for excellent adherence to turfgrass make Endurant grass paints an optimal choice for use on Celebration Bermuda.
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Endurant TE is colorant used on actively growing grass for turf enhancement. Endurant TE is often used in turfgrass management as an indicator dye alternative because of its natural vibrant green grass color with lasting turf enhancement and cost savings compared with other spray indicators. Purchase Endurant TE at www.TurfPaint.net[/caption]
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Endurant colorants provide color throughout New England & throughout the seasons, sprucing up mulch without the risk to plant health of over-mulching & boosting natural turfgrass color for consistency.[/caption]
After discovering the wow-factor provided by Geoponics’ line of Endurant colorants, including Endurant turf colorants and Endurant mulch colorants, New England Arborists, a Connecticut-based company, is offering residential and corporate clients ways to keep mulch and turfgrass healthy and color enhanced.
