The nutrients are distributed more evenly that way as rain dissolves the granules than by hammering concentrated chunks several feet apart. Some products may be delivered straight to your door from one of our suppliers and these products will be labelled within the product description. It’s much easier, cheaper and more effective to scatter granular fertilizer over the entire root zone. The truth is that compost cooks just fine with the microbes that enter the pile on the vegetative material and its roots (assuming you’ve used a mix of green and brown materials).

Swiss Farms reserves the right to extend, modify or discontinue this offer or change these terms at any time without notice. I live in the Caribbean where although regular rainfall keeps everything lush, plants suffer during a drought period when the sun quickly dries everything up. Here’s what Chalker-Scott says about them: “Landscape fabrics used in permanent landscape installations will eventually become a high maintenance issue in terms of appearance, weed control, and landscape plant health. There is a silica-polymer gel you can put on plants that need to stay bare root for a bit, kind of similar to hair gel or aloe gel. Simply mix with soil to reduce the amount of watering needed; then when you do water plants, crystals will swell to absorb the water.

If the item comes direct from a manufacturer, it may be delivered in non-retail packaging, such as a plain or unprinted box or plastic bag. By putting the ferts in silica gel, you would be able to create an environment high in whatever you add while retaining oxygen and hopefully not too wet. It has some good uses – such as under pavers, under stone paths or in vegetable gardens – but the most commonly used purpose is where it’s least useful.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This is the same stuff that's in orbeez/water beads that are marketed as kids toys, and also the same stuff that's in diapers. They’re marketed as ideal for helping to get pots through a dry spell, such as when you go away and miss a day or two or three of watering. The diaper granules may be even more effective for this applied as a top dressing, though it won't breathe as well.They get worked into potting mix before planting and absorb water, releasing it back into the soil when it goes dry.

It works all season, and by using the water more efficiently the gel saves you time by reducing the frequency with which you have to water your plant. Fabrics also inhibit the flow of oxygen into the soil, discourage water absorption during rains, and trap excess moisture in clay soil during rainy spells.

My 1st grader wanted to do the school science fair this year (and then we realized we got WAY too late a start) and we planted marigolds in water beads soaked in different liquids. As people mentioned, it would expand but even the directions I am seeing on the packages indicate a tea or tablespoon per pot. Anti-transpirants simply will not block the pores of a plant for a long-enough time to be effective.

These crystals go a LONG way in ensuring that my plants have backup during dry spells and alleviate the necessity of prolonged watering. Ideal for indoor and outdoor plants, the crystals reduce water stress in plants to help protect them from heat and drought. When branches are cut with anvil pruners, the tip is crushed as it’s being cut, leaving behind a ragged opening that’s more prone to infection, moisture loss and browning.Work Miracle-Gro® Water Storing Crystals thoroughly into the soil throughout the root zone at a rate of 7 TSP. The little bit missing from that little bottle turned into 5x 10oz bottles, and this 1qt bowl still only 50% expanded. All you need to apply is to have a debit or credit card, to be over 18 years of age, and to be a UK resident.