BASALT MINERAL FERTILISER

Magnesium Rich Basalt Rock Meal containing also Silicon, Iron & Calcium & Trace minerals

What is BASALT?

• A magnesium-rich primitive rock meal quarried in New Zealand
• A natural product, environmentally friendly with no elutriation/leaching into ground water.
• Non-toxic & safe to aquatic animals and plant-life.
• A comprehensive natural source of soil minerals & trace elements
• A unique soil conditioning and growing media additive to promote optimal utilisation of soil and media fertility.
• A regenerative agent to depleted soils and growing media

What does it do?

• Improves cuticle strength of plants.
• Stabilises Fast Nitrogen Growth
• Restores soil mineral balance
• Promotes phosphorus availability
• Enhances internal & external quality of produce, tubers, fruit, cereals and flowers during both growth & post-harvest
• Enhances effectiveness of fertilisers
• Promotes even, continuous growth
• Promotes disease resistance and less fungicide use
• Promotes root development
• Improves crop yields
• Restores natural soil capacities which can then provide soil and vegetation with the necessary decomposable minerals for regeneration.

Applications

• Ornamental plant production
• Tree nurseries
• Turf
• Produce production
• Fruit production
• Viticulture
• Floriculture
• Orchids
• Grasslands
• Agricultural Cropping
• Home Flower
• Vegetable Gardens

Application Rates : Basic Guidelines
Application timings are most suitable in late Autumn to Spring

1] Open Ground use
• Capital Dressing 1 tonne per hectare (100gr.per Sq M)
• Rates of up to 3 tonne/ha can be used when fully incorporated into 30cm soil depth
• Annual Top Dressing - Open ground 600 kg per hectare (60 gr.per Sq M) & up to 1.5t/ha p.a.
• (Replenishments) or as advised according to soil analysis

2] Greenhouse Soils
• 200 gr per m2 as initial application.
• Replenishments of 60 - 150gr between each crop and subject to soil analysis.

3] Domestic Garden Soils
• 200grams per m2 worked into soil.
• Top dressings of 100gr per m2

4] Compost manufacturing
• add minimum 2kg per m3 to accelerate composting activity.

5] Growing Media
• Seed Raising & Propagating Media 2 -3 kg per m3
• Potting Mixes & Composts 2 - 5 kg per m3
• Side dressing 2 - 5 gr per pot litre

Dusting

• Dusting with Basalt during crop cultivation is a recommended practice.
• Basalt is safe to foliage & flowers.
• Recommended rates are @ 300 - 500 grams per 100m2 of foliage area.
• Best time of application is early morning when there is dew on the foliage.

Spraying

• Spraying may be used to further benefit crop performance in general or be used to rapidly correct nutritional imbalances and to control crop ‘bolting’.
• (Agitating Membrane Pumps Only) @ 750gr. - 1kg per 100L water

The figures quoted in this data sheet are, to the best of our knowledge, representative of the product. Natural products do vary, so these figures are approximations for guidance only. As conditions of use are beyond our control, no liability is accepted for any loss or damage sustained arising from the use of this information or any products. Because of on-going developments, the product parameters may be changed without notice.