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    Candy Premium Garden Soil

    Composition
    • Rich aged mineral soil
    • Selectively graded to ensure permeability and air porosity
    • 45% specially formulated high nutrient organic compost
    Description
    • Ph meets AS4419 requirements
    • Physically stable soil
    • Retains nutrients due to the active mineral components
    Physical Benefits
    • Provides deep root growth
    • Weed and nutgrass free
    • Excellent nutrient content to aid plant growth
    Applications
    • Use this premium soil in most forms of home gardening
    • Excellent for flower beds and vegetable gardens
    • Ideal for topping up garden beds but remember to fork over well
    • Conforms to Australian Standards 4419
    • Meets Queensland Government soil requirements
    Handy Hints
    • As with all gardens build to a minimum depth of 300mm
    • Water before and after planting
    • Lightly fertilise with a complete fertiliser after planting. This will help promote the microbial activity in this organic soil
    • Planting vegetables? They are ferocious nitrogen eaters so fertilise weekly with a soluble fertiliser.

    Candy Trade Blend

    Composition
    • Crushed and screened mineral base
    • High nutrient aged compost
    Description
    • pH meets AS4419 requirements
    • Perfectly balanced blend of “sand, silt and clays” with the Candy compost
    • Good all round soil – equally at home under your turf or in a garden application
    Physical Benefits
    • Promotes vigorous root growth for healthy lawns
    • Well balance soil, will retain moisture while still providing good drainage
    • Candy Compost provides a base load of nutrients but always remember to fertilize regularly
    Applications
    • Use this premium product for your turf underlay – the thicker the layer of soil the better your lawn will grow.
    • Excellent for repairing worn areas in your lawn
    • Provides balanced nutrients to lawns however always apply additional fertilizer as required
    • Excellent garden soil providing good water holding properties.
    • Always remember to mulch your garden as all soils will bake hard if exposed to direct hot sun, we do live in Queensland!
    Handy Hints
    • Always allow a good depth of soil under your turf – a minimum of 150mm is recommended.
    • A good soil allows and promotes healthy root development
    • Water thoroughly after applying your turf
    • Always ensure you thoroughly wet the soil before planting or laying turf. Don’t be frightened to get your hands dirty and wet the soil thoroughly.
    • Ensures strong root growth and healthy leaf development
    • Fertilize after 2 weeks and then every 6 weeks during the growing season
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    Candy Premium Overturf

    Composition
    • Premium selected graded sands
    • High nutrient chicken and feedlot compost
    Description
    • pH meets AS4419 requirements
    • Perfectly balanced blend of the finest sands and composts
    • Facilitates free and uniform leaf penetration to give a beautifully even grass surface
    Physical Benefits
    • Promotes vigorous root growth for healthy lawns
    • Will not crust and go hard like loam based top dress products
    • Suitable for cylinder mowers
    • Weed and nutgrass free
    Applications
    • Use this premium product for your existing lawn topdressing
    • Excellent for repairing worn areas in your lawn
    • Thickens turf thatch and provides balanced nutrients to lawns
    • Excellent lawn seed raising mixture
    Handy Hints
    • Where there are wear areas fork and aerate before spreading overturf
    • Spread evenly ensuring the leaves are exposed
    • Water thoroughly after applying overturf
    • Apply overturf  regularly and don’t cover the leaf
    • Ensures strong root growth and healthy leaf development
    • Fertilise after 2 weeks and then every 6 weeks during the growing season

    Candy Soil Improver

    Composition
    • Premium compost used in all Candy Soil products
    • Approximately 70% organic mature compost
    • Graded minerals for added water holding
    • Contains natural organic nutrients
    Description
    • Ph meets AS4454 requirements
    • Encourages earth worms to the soil
    • Adds much needed nutrients such as nitrogen and trace elements to the soil
    • Improves plant growth and encourages excellent fruit and vegetable crops
    Physical Benefits
    • Prevents crusting of silty loamy soils
    • Improves clay soils and increases aeration when incorporated in poor soils
    • Encourages microbial activity and earthworms – natures aerators
    • Nut grass free
    Applications
    • Excellent soil improver, dug into the top 150mm of existing gardens and then watered
    • Great as a mulch around hungry nitrogen feeders like vegetables
    • Meets Australian Standard 4454. for soil improver
    • Improves tired soils and gives them a new lease of life
    Handy Hints
    • Use as a mulch but be prepared for it to decompose quickly  helping  the structure of the soil
    • Use around annuals as a mulch and when they are finished dig into the soil adding valuable nutrients
    • Great around vegetables as a nutrient rich mulch and moisture conserver
    • Remember if you use it as a mulch, keep it away from the plant stem. This will  prevent rot and allow water to penetrate

    Remember the “Worm” rules and he needs feeding. The compost will keep the soil cool and moist, the perfect environment for the worms to work their magic

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    Candy Eco Blend

    Composition
    • Contains 35% aged organic compost
    • Screened Sandy Loam Base
    • Base level soil that meets the requirements of AS4419
    • Suitable for under turf and in garden applications
    Description
    • pH meets AS4419 requirements
    • Promotes deep root growth
    • Nutrients are available from the Candy Aged Compost
    • Well balanced for reduced slumping
    Physical Benefits
    • Cost effective turf and garden soil
    • Balances water retention and drainage
    • Balanced drainage with minimal slumping
    Applications
    • Designed for the home renovator and landscape contractor
    • Perfect under rolled turf and new lawns
    • Great in garden beds
    • Meets Queensland Government soil requirements
    Handy Hints
    • When laying turf make sure you have a minimum soil depth of 150mm
    • In our Queensland climate root depth is critical for healthy grass
    • Increased soil depth ensures better water retention, ensuring stronger and healthier leaf growth.
    • Put in sprinkler systems to help control the moisture requirements
    • Don’t over-water your plants or lawn. Water logged soil will not grow healthy plants
    • Happy gardening

    Podium Blend

    Composition
    • Premium aged compost
    • Graded horticultural ash
    • Mineral foundation soil
    Physical Benefits
    • Lightweight
    • Ash and mineral content help reduce slumping
    • Porous soil assists and encourages root growth
    Applications
    • Ideal for planter boxes or raised garden beds
    • Well suited to apartment buildings/high rises
    • Perfect for vegetable gardens and pots
    • Conforms to Australian Standards 4419
    Handy Hints
    • If planting veggies, use a soluble fertiliser regularly
    • Remember to keep the soil moist and well drained
    • A planter box or the like should have a base layer of drainage gravel, geotextile cloth on top and then the soil above to ensure sediment doesn’t clog up the drainage layer
    • 100mm topping of Mulch is a must!!
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