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Z-Best Organic Compost
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Primary Values:
Conditions the soil and helps create good soil structure with improved aeration, drainage, water and nutrient holding capacity.

Recommended uses:
Z-Best amendment to maintain healthy soil, teeming with microbial activity and ready to challenge pathogen growth. Excellent preplant soil conditioner for row crops, orchards, and vineyards. Great side/top dressing for high value crops.

Best Practices:
  • Use a soil test to determine if Organic Compost helps provide what your soil needs and to suggest what the appropriate application rate is for your situation.
  • Consider adding additional nutrients at the appropriate rate to the compost before spreading. This practice cuts down on spreading costs, provides a great medium for spreading, and may result in a decrease in loss of soluble nutrients.
  • In preplant preparation and reconditioning soil mix organic compost throughout the root zone of the plant/s, water the beds down 1-3 times 3 days apart. This practice reduces soluble nutrients in the root zone and allows the compost to have time to stimulate beneficial microbial activity.
  • Final seedbed preparation for direct seeding includes using _"organic compost at the very top of the soil to hold moisture and allow for germination and early root development. Be sure to water 1" at least one time before planting your seeds.
  • Top dress a new lawn with compost after the lawn shows significant new growth (a least one month). After applying a top dressing of compost, apply _" to 1" of water

Specifications:
Approval:CCOF approved for use by organic growers.
Registered:Meets required criteria of CCQC, California Compost Quality Council.
Feedstock:Made from ground yard trimmings.
Particle Size:_" minus
Organic Matter:*25% to 38%
Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio:*12:1 to 19:1
pH:*7.3 to 8.3
Nutrient Ranges:* N = 0.72% to 1.42%
P = 0.16% to 0.27%
K = 0.42% to 1.00%
Ca = 1.57% to 4.48%
*As reported in past laboratory reports and not intended to be a guarantee of nutrients or their current availability. Most differences reported on laboratory tests are due to conditions beyond the control of Z-Best Products, (seasonal variations in feedstock, weather and moisture conditions). See laboratory analysis summary sheet for more information.
 
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