Over the past few weeks, I have talked to two different
customers that have had great success with one of our money saving products. The
product is Possum’s Wetting Agent with Biostimulants (PWAB for short).
Possum’s Wetting Agent with Biostimulants is a water
management product also called a wetting agent. Imagine a bunch of tiny little
balloons that penetrate into your soil through the tiny cracks, absorb water,
expand, relieve compaction , and then release the water slowly back to the
plant. After about a month, these balloons begin to break down in the soil,
like a helium balloon does in the atmosphere.
The first customer that thanked me for introducing her to Possum’s
Wetting Agent with Biostimulants lived in a clay type soil. The first benefit
she noticed was areas that stayed wet in the past seemed to dry out quicker.
Aqueduct let the water go into the ground instead of sitting on the surface.
She also noticed that the water that flowed over the curb after a rain now
stayed on her lawn. For hours or even days after a rain, her neighbors curb was
wet while hers was dry. The rainwater was penetrating her soil and benefiting
her yard instead of flowing down the road to the storm water drain.
Once the rains began to slow down, she began to notice the
big savings in her pocket book. She went from watering Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday for thirty minutes a zone down to Monday and Friday for 20 minutes a
zone. In other words she went from watering a total of 90 minutes down to 40
minutes. She cut her watering in more than half!
In periods of long dry spells, the area along her sidewalk
that does not get watered from her sprinklers because she does not like to
water the sidewalk, now stays green. Other areas in her lawn that did not have
perfect head to head coverage with irrigation, now stay green longer between
periods of no rain. These dry areas were always thin and now they are thicker
and greener with less weed issues.
Because of the clay soil she had lots of containers and
hanging baskets for color plants and a small herb garden. These plants also
needed far less water. In our brutal heat some of her hanging baskets needed
watering twice a day. Not anymore.
The other customer lives in a sandy soil area of the
Lowcountry. He suffered from a large dry area on a hill and an annual bed that
always dried out; however, the annuals were on a zone with turf so the turf was
getting over watered to keep the annuals alive.
Through the monthly use of Possum’s Wetting Agent with
Biostimulants, he was able to solve both problems without having to rework his
irrigation system. He had been watering everyday for 30 minutes and has cut his
watering to 3 times a week. On last report he was going to try to lower the
minutes per watering. Another lowered water bill and another better looking
yard!
Less watering also means less disease and less expensive
fungicides. This slow release watering can save you money on your water bill,
help fertilizer work better, lessen compaction, prevent runoff into storm water
drains that go to our marshes, grow deeper roots, develop healthier plants that
can withstand stress better, and let me mention again save you money!
