LIQUID (SOLUBLE)
The quick, effective way to nourish established plants in pots or in your garden! Liquid fertilizers go to work almost immediately, assuring continued, superlative growth and quick recovery for those that are tired and under-nourished. Our selection lets you find the right, well-balanced plant food — with important minerals, trace elements, enzymes and other important natural components — for your particular needs.
Organic Fertilizer Benefits
Why not use synthetic fertilizers? It’s a reasonable question. After all, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium ARE chemicals, so where is the advantage in these bags of heavy, grainy stuff, that need to be measured and mixed and then dug in, when you can just pick up a small plastic bottle of the blue stuff?
There are several organic fertilizer benefits, some purely altruistic, others much more self-interested. First of all, most inorganic fertilizers provide only that well-known trio, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K). These three, known as the macro-nutrients, are indeed required in greater quantity than any others, but they are only three of the thirteen nutrients plants need. The three chemicals that qualify as secondary nutrients, calcium, sulfur, and magnesium are generally ignored, as are the trace nutrients, boron, chlorine, manganese, iron, zinc, copper, and molybdenum. While these are needed in far smaller quantities than the macro-nutrients, they are still essential.
Soil Health
Experienced growers know that a beautiful, sustainable garden starts with living, healthy soil. Most plants thrive in well-drained, slightly acidic, soils that are rich in organic matter. The challenge, however, is that most of the world’s soils do not exist this way and they must be balanced, or amended, to provide the conditions necessary for robust plant growth. Click on the information and news below to learn about soil health and what can be done to improve it
Compost
What other process can take the cast-offs from your yard and kitchen and turn it into the best fertilizer ever made?
Whether you’re making compost in a pile, a tumbler or using worms, we’ve got you covered. Start here for the basics and some insider tips from the pros.
ZEOLITE IN AGRICULTURE
Zeolite:
- Enables better plant growth
- Improves the efficiency and value of fertiliser
- Improves water infiltration and retention
- Improves yield
- Retains nutrients for use by plants
- Improves long term soil quality
- Reduces loss of nutrients in soil
Applying zeolite to the soil can improve its ability to hold nutrients and water
Zeolite is a natural super porous mineral (part of a group of hydrated alumino silicates). It carries a negative charge balanced by freely moving cations with positive charges. this provides an ideal trap for positive cations like nitrogen rich ammonium and potassium which are then released when demanded by plants.
Zeolites have a very open framework with a network of pores giving it a large surface area for trapping and exchanging valuable nutrients.
More efficient fertiliser use
With the current high price of ammonium fertilisers zeolite can be used to extend their efficiency and performance. Blending fertiliser with zeolite can produce the same yield from less fertiliser applied because of the reduction of volatolization and leaching losses. It is particularly suitable for banding under drip irrigation planting where it will assist water infiltration, distribution and retention. When fertigation is practiced it will actively hold the nutrients in the rootzone.
The role of zeolite
Zeolite can hold nutrients in the root zone for plants to use when required. This leads to more efficient use of N and K fertilisers – either less fertiliser for the same yield or the same amount of fertiliser lasting longer and producing higher yields.
An added benefit of zeolite application is that unlike other soil amendments (gypsum and lime) it does not break down over time but remains in the soil to help improve nutrient and water retention permanently. With subsequent applications the zeolite will further improve the soil’s ability to retain nutrients and produce improved yields.
And zeolite is not acidic. In fact it is marginally alkaline and its use with fertilisers can help buffer soil pH levels thus reducing the need for lime applications.
