ALS Profile

ALS was formed in January 1988 by its current owners who had many years' previous experience in amenity and agricultural agronomy. Our objective was to create a specialist amenity horticulture supply company with high levels of professionalism and service for the sports turf and amenity planting & landscaping industries.

From the beginning 'supply and apply' contract services formed about one third of our business, with the other two thirds being supply of products and advice.

At ALS we currently employ around thirty staff, twelve of whom are professionally qualified amenity agronomists with BASIS and NPTC qualifications and many years' diverse experience to offer. All such advice is supplied free with our goods and services.

We are main distributors for a number of leading amenity product suppliers such as Bayer Environmental Science, Everris, Limagrain, DLF Seeds, Albaugh Europe, Cheminova, Lebanon Seaboard, Brintons, Headland and numerous others.

In addition we have a number of exclusive products and services such as the Rubberloc® range of rubber tree ties and blocks which we manufacture and market, the EasySpray CDA® range of CDA herbicides and applicators and our Natural Solutions® range of plant health products that move away from using pesticides and chemical fertilisers.

Product supply falls into two main categories, namely sports turf products and planting products.

Contract services are various but fall into three main categories, namely pesticide spraying, turf renovation services and turf drainage services. Spraying covers a wide area of operations from sports turf to highways and streets and bracken spraying to aquatic weed control. We guarantee all our work to a high standard and have an excellent performance record with a large number of prestigious customers repeatedly using our services.

Unique To ALS

EasySpray CDA Pavement Sprayer

The EasySpray® CDA Pavement weed sprayer. Spray while you sweep... Free labour... Free fuel... Zero carbon footprint spraying! All covered by the cost of sweeping. Also available to fit all utility vehicles.

View the EasySpray video

CDA Pavement Sprayer Leaflet (PDF - 2.3 MB)

Additional information on CDA Pavement Sprayer (PDF - 140 KB)

Mankar ULV Spraying System

The Future of Total Weed Control.

Roundup Pro Biactive 450 applied neat via The Mankar ULV Spraying System. This unique system reduces labour, pesticide use and cost, therefore it has great environmental benefits. The system is available in many different forms from hand held, pedestrian, wheeled and vehicle mounted.

Mankar Question and Answers (PDF - 79.1 KB)
Mankar Brochure (PDF - 2.9 MB)
Mankar Weed Senor Sprayers (PDF - 4.1 MB)
Mankar Christmas Tree Sprayers (PDF - 4.7 MB)

Rubberloc

Our Rubberloc range of tree ties, blocks and belting are made out of the best quality E.P.D.M. rubber material available with design features that make it superior to competing tree support products. In use for many years Rubberloc has a name for reliability.

Visit the Rubberloc Website

Garsy Flower Towers

The Garsy system and its unique patented design guarantees eye catching floral displays all year round and are ideal for shopping centres, parks, attractions, traffic island, verges and office entrances. The Garsy Flower Towers are strong and stable structures, easily transportable and can be re-used year after year. The towers can even be supplied fully planted, watered, fed and delivered to site.

Garsy Leaflet (PDF - 720 KB)

Mycorrmax Planting Compost

Mycorrmax Planting Compost is a first class soil conditioner and planting compost for trees, shrubs and bedding plants. It has a full bio-stimulants package with a slow release natural plant food and 17 species of mycorrhizae. Mycorrmax has been used sucessfully by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council to see what they think click on the link below.

Mycorrmax Leaflet (PDF - 425 KB)