{"product_id":"easy-as-organics-insect-frass","title":"Easy as Organics Insect Frass","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInsect 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003ePest and disease claims are the manufacturer's own.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Easy as Organics","offers":[{"title":"1 kg","offer_id":48083201622174,"sku":"PLACEHOLDER526","price":40.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5 kg","offer_id":48083201654942,"sku":"PLACEHOLDER527","price":94.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/5261\/6094\/files\/Easy_as_Organics_Insect_Frass_1kg.png?v=1792666271","url":"https:\/\/www.hydrooasis.com.au\/products\/easy-as-organics-insect-frass","provider":"Hydro Oasis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}