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Easy as Organics Insect Frass
Feed the soil, and the plant gets fed along with it. That's the idea behind Easy as Organics Insect Frass, an organic fertiliser made from the castings of black soldier fly larvae raised on recycled food waste in Victoria, Australia. It's a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilisers. It gives your garden beds, pots and grow media plant-available mineral nutrients plus a large population of beneficial microbes.
Those microbes are what make this frass more than a feed. They stimulate the soil food web, the network of bacteria, fungi and other soil life that breaks down organic matter and passes nutrients on to roots. Your plants depend on that network, and every application of Insect Frass adds living members to it.
The microbial content in Insect Frass covers a range of functional groups, including nitrogen-fixing bacteria from the Bacillus and Pseudomonas genera. Nitrogen fixers take nitrogen gas from the air and convert it into forms your plants can use. Once the frass is in the soil, its biology improves biological diversity and helps store carbon and nitrogen there. It also helps keep nitrogen from escaping to the atmosphere, and it helps hold the soil's structure together. Easy as Organics also say it increases plant yields!
Plant pathogens and disease often get their chance when a plant is already under stress. Easy as Organics formulated Insect Frass with that in mind. They built it around plant-available chitin, which they single out as what sets their frass apart and credit with defending against plant pathogens and disease. Chitin is the tough material insects build their outer shells from, and fungal cell walls contain it too, so a plant reads it as a sign of attack. Under stress conditions, antimicrobial compounds are produced that act as a protective barrier for the plant.
Insect Frass is low in heavy metals, sodium and other chemicals. That counts on any bed you feed season after season, because sodium and heavy metals build up in soil with repeated applications.
It works just as well in the ground as in pots and hydroponic systems. You can use it as a soil feed for garden beds, as a top dressing for growing plants, through fertigation water or in a hydroponic system. The 1 kg (2.2 lb) pack suits pots and top dressing. Garden beds take it by the square metre, and that's where the larger 5 kg (11 lb) pack makes more sense.
Pest and disease claims are the manufacturer's own.
Feed the soil life as well as the plant, with natural chitin built in!
Adds Beneficial Microbes
Stimulates the soil food web plants rely on
Natural Plant Defence
Chitin triggers a protective barrier under stress
Keeps Nitrogen Working
Helps store carbon and nitrogen in soil
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Easy as Organics Insect Frass
Key Highlights
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Key Highlights
- Made by black soldier fly larvae
- Natural chitin source for plant resilience
- Carries Bacillus and Pseudomonas nitrogen fixers
- Low heavy metal and sodium content
- Builds soil biological diversity and structure
- Suits garden beds, pots, fertigation and hydroponics
- A sustainable swap for chemical fertilisers
Directions for Use
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Directions for Use
Application Rate
- Garden beds: 100 g - 250 g per m²
- Top dressing: 1 handful around the root zone
- Fertigation: 2 tablespoons per 9 L
- Potting soil: 15 - 20 ml/L (1.5% - 2% by volume)
- Hydroponics: 1/2 cup per 100 L
- Deficient soils: up to 500 kg per hectare
Application
- For garden beds, spread the frass and incorporate it into the soil.
- To top dress, place a handful around the root zone of each plant.
- For potting soil, mix the frass evenly through the soil by volume.
- For fertigation and hydroponics, add the frass to the water, or top dress it onto the hydroponic grow media instead.
- Garden beds: apply 100 to 250 g per m², incorporated into the soil.
Safety
Store in a cool, dark, frost-free place.
Shipping & Returns
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Shipping & Returns
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We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item to request a return.
To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it, unused, with tags, and in its original packaging. You’ll also need the receipt or proof of purchase.
To start a return, you can contact us at info@hydrooasis.com.au
If your return is accepted, we’ll send you a return shipping label, as well as instructions on how and where to send your package. Items sent back to us without first requesting a return will not be accepted.
You can always contact us for any return question at info@hydrooasis.com.au.
Size: 1 kg
