Fertilisers and Essentials

Fertilisers and essentials aisle

Break Through fertiliser
(commercial name 'Bio-boost')

The first organic, granulated, slow-release fertiliser available to the home gardener. Free of pathogens and weed seed. Unlike chemical fertilisers it is not harmful to soil life and worms.
NPK 6.1:3.4:0.4 plus Calcium, Magnesium, Sulphur, Iron and Trace Elements.
This product can be used safely in all areas of the garden from lawns to pot plants. Use liberally around plants in gardens and containers, broadcast over lawns and water in to settle.
( 7kg and 10kg packs are only available to Wellington customers at this time due to courier costs )

Magic Botanic Liquid (MBL)
(Humate and Fulvic Acid)

It's called 'Magic' for a reason! A fantastic product that will unlock the goodness in your soil. MBL is a growth booster, not a fertiliser. It helps organic foods and/or existing chemical fertilisers become available to plant life, reduces common plant disease problems, cleans up toxic compounds and helps establish plants where they can't or struggle to grow. It stimulates growth of soil micro-organisms, root respiration and formation, enhances nutrient uptake in plants and more...!
Wally Richards, author of "Wally's Green Tips for Gardeners", believes "this is one of the greatest gardening products since we invented the spade".
Every gardener should have some.
Use at a rate of 20ml of MBL per litre of water for a soil soak, or 10ml of MBL per litre of water as a foliar spray once or twice a month.

Thatch Busta
(Organic de-thatcher and compost activator)

A natural way to break down thatch in lawns, converting it to a food source. Thatch is simply a layer of dead and decaying organic material that can build up in the base of the lawn. Some grasses are more susceptible to thatch build up (eg Brown Top), as are grasses that have a higher mowing height or aren't mowed often enough. Thatch can prevent water, air and fertilisers getting to the soil and so your lawn will then be affected due to a lack of nutrient uptake. Thatch can also encourage weed growth and diseases.
To deal with thatch, either scarify your lawn or spray on Thatch Busta at a rate of 100ml to 10 litres of water, over an area of 100 sq metres.
Thatch Busta can eat away thatch at about an inch per month and makes it available as a food source to your lawn.

Mycorrcin Plus

This is an organic product that promotes beneficial microbes to assist in the composting of organic matter into humus. Stimulates Mycorrhizal fungi which act as an extension to the plant's roots enabling moisture and nutrient uptake. Stimulates growth of feeder roots and microbes responsible for mineralization, improving calcium availability and uptake.
A must for preferred plants like roses, vegetables, fruit, annuals, lawns and ornamentals. Mycorrcin Plus will revitalize the soil, increase growth rates, increase crop yields, reduce disease problems and stimulates plants that have become poorly due to chemical fertilisers.
Spray at 5ml per litre of water over existing plants and surrounding soil (ideally every 14 days to recover). Use at 1ml per litre of water as a soil soak before planting. Spray on your compost heap for faster activation.

Raingard

Rain protection for sprays. This is a natural, biodegradable terpenic polymer that will stop the rain from affecting the sprays you put on your plants. Used in conjunction with your other sprays at a rate of only 1ml per litre of spray, Raingard will act as a rainproofer, wetting agent, and chemical bridge to assist systemic sprays enter the foliage of your plants. It will help spread and stick the spray particles, and then prevent it being washed away. It will effectively rain-proof your spray for up to 2 weeks of average rainfall. (Remember that if spraying a toxic spray on food crops with Raingard, a 2 week withholding period is required before consumption, unless the toxic spray used requires more. Natural insecticides such as Neem Tree Oil do not require the withholding period, as they are not toxic)

Vaporgard

Organic spray-on frost protection plus anti-transpirant. This will enable you to protect your plants from the effects of those cold winter days.
Spray onto foliage using a mix of 15ml of Vaporgard to 1 litre of warm water. It will offer protection down to -3 degrees C, and last for about 3 months.
You can also use this to reduce the stress on a plant when transplanting. Spraying prior to transplanting will reduce moisture loss through the foliage and thus reduces the transplant shock or stress.
Note that several frosts in a row will result in damage of some kind, so if this is predicted you will still need to use a frost cloth as well for increased protection

Moss and Liverwort Control
For control of moss, liverwort, lichen, algae, slimes and moulds.

Contains the active ingredient benzalkonium chloride, 500g per litre.
For Moss and Liverwort use at a rate of 25ml to 50ml per litre of water. For Lichen and Algae, use at a rate of 10ml to 20ml per litre. If spraying over plants, rinse off with a hose after 30 minutes. Unlike Sulphate of Iron which burns the top layer of moss, this product will kill the whole bryophyte.