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Water Saver Organic
Water Saver Organic
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The best performing water saver in organic agriculture is now available for home gardeners: just one easy treatment drastically cuts unwanted water losses in open soil and containers making thirsty plants noticeably happier in difficult conditions:
Just one to three pumps per litre of water once a month can reduce water losses by 30 to 50%.
Makes dry substrate physically easier to re-hydrate, but it also slows water down, keeping more where you need it: around the roots of your plants.
Works in all common growing media from garden soil though composts and coco coir to peat and peat free mixes and mosses.
Great for houseplants in challenging hot / dry / draughty conditions as well as hanging baskets, raised beds, south facing borders, living walls, kokedama, bonsai and more.
Reversible, non-toxic, non-hazardous, rapidly and safely biodegradable, and contains No Polyacrylamide. Vegan and certified Organic.
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Usage
- Use 1 pump (1ml) per litre for fresh, highly retentive substrate, and up to three pumps (3ml) per litre for fast draining, older or otherwise poorly retentive substrate.
- Apply mixed in water only.
- Re-apply as required when effects subside (one month or more in substrate with low microbial levels, two weeks or less in highly active organic soils)
- Store away from extremes of temperature. Water Saver Organic is non-hazardous and non-toxic but always store garden products away from children and pets.
- Avoid over-watering after applying to avoid rinsing product away: Water Saver is designed to retain the water you’d normally lose whilst trying to wet substrate properly when watering normally - the water that runs out of pots before the top of the soil is properly wet, the water that runs off the side and onto the floor, or gets lost to trees under borders and deep into raised beds before shallow bedding plant roots can take it up: but it can’t retain everything. Once substrate is fully saturated, it can’t retain any more water. Water Saver makes that state easier and faster to achieve with less wastage. It then maintains humidity balance for longer vs untreated substrate.
-In pots and containers: Once you’ve applied Water Saver, you’ll notice water going into substrate easier and faster: stop when you start to see runoff*. Job done.
-In open soil / raised beds etc: if your watering is timed / metered, reduce by 30% and if your plants are still happy, continue to -40 or -50%. If you water by hand and have a regular regime, reduce it by a third or more and look to your plants as a guide.
*A degree of runoff is healthy in many situations, and you don’t need to re-apply Water Saver afterwards, but do re-apply after prolonged or repeated flushing of substrate.
How is Water-Saver different from other water retaining products?
VS Polyacrylamide “water crystals” etc: Water-Saver binds water to soil particles instead of trapping in crystals avoiding the wet water retainer but dry soil issue that can occur as a result. But more importantly, Water-Saver has no potentially harmful decomposition products so is safe to use from all points of view. It is also reversible because it’s rapidly and safely biodegradable, so if you want to return soil or substrate to its original water retention capacity (for example ahead of winter),simply cease application and effects will subside as it’s naturally broken down by soil microbes.
VS Alternative water retaining additives: With a headline rate of 30 to 50% reduction in open soil irrigation required to maintain plant health, Water-Saver outperforms almost everything on the market bar some recent meat / animal cartilage based formulations which can roughly equal Water-Saver in performance. The difference is Water-Saver is made from GMO-free vegetable oils which do not have the same carbon footprint and do not require industrial meat farming.