The folks who revolutionized the way superintendents relive soil compaction on golf courses are now offering their services to the residential and commercial turf and tree-care markets.
DryJect recently launched Advanced Agro, a version of its soil compaction-relief service that uses a high-speed, water-based injection system to blast aeration holes through the root zone to fracture the soil and simultaneously fills holes to the surface with high volumes of sand or amendment. This allows users to relieve compaction, increase water infiltration, reach the root zone with oxygen and amend the soil with high volumes of material all at the same time while also leaving the surface smooth and immediately playable.
Current DryJect franchisees are bound to golf or sports turf. Advanced Agro will serve the commercial and residential turf and arboriculture markets.
"We have a soils-first mentality," said DryJect president John Paddock. "If you build the soils, you have happy turf and happy trees. If you take care of everything below the surface, you will have the ability to take care of everything above the surface."
DryJect worked with a local tree-care company in Arizona to develop the new service under the name Advanced Agro, which features a machine that is 2 feet shorter and a foot narrower than the original DryJect equipment. It also has the capability to deliver multiple products at once at the root or surface level for turf and tree care, Paddock said.
"The machine is set up for a 36-inch gate and an injection pattern that is 32 inches wide with eight injectors spaced 4 inches apart," Paddock said. "It gives us the ability to inject four products at the roots or surface and incorporate some things that the tree-care industry is looking for, such as nutrients, plant growth regulators or two dry products."