Compost Blowing

Topdressing with Compost

BENEFITS

Topdressing with compost is primarily practiced as a means to improving turf quality.

Specific benefits that have been documented include the following:

  1. Providing nutrients
  2. Increasing organic matter
  3. Improving soil structure
  4. Reducing irrigation
  5. Reducing thatch
  6. Improving surface irregularities
  7. Adding beneficial microbes
  8. Reducing winter damage
  9. Reducing weeds
  10. Reducing nutrient losses to surface and ground water