Simply sprinkle evenly onto soil from the edge of a spade or trowel and then rake in, or let worms and weather do this for you.
Minimum Annual Dose
Apply 0.5kg per square metre, or in gardener’s terms “a handful a yard”. A 10kg bag supplies 20 square metres. This annual dose has also been seen to benefit lawns.
Booster Dose
Apply 2kg per square metre to give your soil a boost.
Top Dressing for Large Areas
Volcanic Rock Dust can be applied to fields and parks, whether grass land or cultivated using a Lime Spreader. Fertiliser Spinners can be used, but care must to be taken to prevent it sticking to the sides of the spinner. Salt Spreaders with a Heavy Duty Agitator are also suitable.
MINIMUM DOSE
0.5kg per square meter = 2 tonnes per acre
BOOSTER DOSE
2kg per square metre = 8 tonnes per acre
Compost Improver
Mix 2kg through 50 litres of compost. Ideal if you mix in wheelbarrow or trug. A good handful mixed through a bucket of compost works well.
Compost Activator/Accelerator
When adding a new layer of compost to your compost bin or pile, add a sufficient amount of rock dust to make a light covering over the surface and can easily see through. Gardening material breaks down into compost faster, reaching higher temperatures and reducing odour.
Tonic for Wormeries
Sprinkle a small handful per 30cm2 (1ft2) onto surface of your wormery every month. Try a small area with this amount and see the worms congregate and enjoy it!
Mixing with Other Plant Foods
Volcanic Rock Dust works well with soil conditioners, animal manures and plant foods. Whilst lime raises the pH of acid soils, we do not recommend adding it at the same time as volcanic rock dust as this reduces the effectiveness of both materials. Leave at least two weeks between both applications.
Quality Control
This is a natural product and, as such, moisture content may vary however this will not affect the quality. Please Note: Smaller amounts than 25kg may be supplied in a clear polythene bag, with all relevant information clearly labelled.
Storage & Safety Advice
Store in a dry place or under cover if stored outside. Do not apply in windy conditions.
I’ve been using volcanic ash for my garden / house plant for the past 2 years .
If the bag content is wet , or delivered into fragmented stones is not a problem at all .
Just like us needing minerals and vitamins , prepare your garden soil with extra . Your rewards will be great .
2x a yea
Put nutrients back into the soil can be added to compost as an activator I buy a bag each year and can see the difference in my plants and on the allotment would recommend.
Volcanic rock dust works together with compost and soil to create a growing medium which benefits the health, strength and productivity of the plants grown. I have used it successfully in growing vegetables.
I’ve put one bag on the veg patch which was depleted after 35 years of growing the same stuff
The other bag I shall use when I’m planting things or feeding them
Arrived promptly very well packed. I have been using this product for some years on my vegetable beds. The soil is very light and sandy. The crops that I get now are far better than before I used Remin.
As described. Not sure really how I tell if it’s working. I bought it on recommendation from another person. It’s very heavy and dense in weight but is actually a fine powder.
Buy some every year now for my veg garden after recommendation from friend and it has helped enormously (we have very little depth and poor quality soil) after previously adding compost and fertilisers I started adding this and it made a huge difference.
This has had a massively noticeable effect on our allotment.
We got given a second abandoned plot just this arrived, applied it to both and while we were excavating the head height fire weeds, nettles and mad brambles in the new plot the weeds shot up. Everything is growing bigger, faster and more lush. I’ll be using this in the future as I’ve seen the difference it makes. Not just to the weeds.
Wonderful stuff. My veg plot had been getting a bit tired in spite of manure and so on, but this stuff really perked it up and I had great veg all year, especially beans and strawberries
I intend to use the product to enrich the soil, grow stronger plants and improve the quality the produce that I might grow. I have never used this product before, it was recommended by my who has shown me some of his results, I am now looking forward to the result that I might be rewarded with
used as a refresh in pots, bonsai and general garden use, volcanic rock dust is “safe” for all life, you can’t over feed, results can be seen in a fairly short time.
This is a new adventure for my allotment and it really makes a lot of sense. If you look at the areas surrounding volcanic activity and it’s deposits. Anyway along with my staple seaweed granules decided to add both components, on a whim, to the soil. The results will hopefully show this year. Already the leeks have done very well, compared to the other plots, and as a novice with little knowledge of gardening very chuffed with the results. This weekend went to our local Potato Fair in Whitchurch near Winchester, where they have a guest speaker from the agricultural college Sparsholt and did pose the question as to the benefits of using Volcanic rock ash and according to him due to the boran element this was a great idea but to add only once every ten years. That with gardening by the Luna calendar, and the use of hydrogen peroxide, for pests, it appears that I have heaps of investigative work to do.
Been using this for a couple of years now. Put it around a tiny newly planted rhubarb plant at the highest rate, next summer it was lager than any other rhubarb plant I’ve grown. Had plenty for myself and gave away loads from just that 1 plant. Has helped everything in the garden but that was the most spectacular. Grow mostly vegetables.
Product arrived as expected. Unfortunately I am not able to add comment on
the results of this product in my garden as yet. It will be a few weeks before the health of the garden can be assessed as a result of the addition on this volcanic dust to the soil
This is difficult to rate so early on as the effect of the dust will take a while to kick in. Given that, so far those plants that I’ve tried it on look fine, but it will I believe, not be until next year that I notice a real difference.
When I told my wife I was spending some of our hard-earned cash on rock dust she suggested I nip round the building site and get some brick dust!
Very amusing. But this is not like dust at all. It is a dark-grey colour (very volcanic) with a lovely thick friable texture. It is like dry soil. It feels wonderful. Mix this 50:50 with compost and you’d have a great planting medium – I’ve done that for some seeds.
Spreading the volcanic rock dust is a bit of a challenge because it is too thick and clumpy for a fertiliser spreader (for the lawn). A garden sieve might be the best bet for an even spread.
As an experiment I have put this on part on our lawn (which sits on thick clay), in some of our pots, and on a couple of flower beds. We’ll see how it performs. I would like to spread a layer of this all over the sticky clay on our garden but I will probably have to win the lottery for that.
It looks and feels wonderful and I am sure it will help improve the texture of heavy soil as well as add vital elements. It seems pretty good value compared to many soil improvers and is definitely worth a try if you love your garden.
I’ll need to wait to see the results in our garden, but I am hopeful it will do good things.
I bought this because I took over an allotment plot this year which had been untended for a few years, and had very dry sandy soil which the neighbouring plotholders say is poor and lacking in nutrients. I don’t like using animal products so I’ve been looking for vegan ways to improve the soil. I’ve mixed coir compost into the soil, and whenever I plant something I sprinkle some vegan fertiliser pellets and a small handful of this rock dust in the soil around the plant. It is only my first year on the allotment so I think it will take some time to build up a good nutrient-rich soil, and really notice the difference but so far using this I have had a good crop of leafy veg that has grown much longer than expected (Spinach, lettuce, winter purslane, beets, and chard that I planted in August 2015 are still growing strong in February 2016, having survived the whole winter without any frost protection). My mum who is a qualified horticulturist also uses this in her veg garden and she says she really noticed a difference when she first started using it – her crops were much bigger and healthier. Her friend who grows flowers has also said he has had the best crops ever since using this. I am new to gardening so don’t have much to compare it to, but I like the fact that I can use something that is not animal based to add nutrients to the soil.
Have been using rock dust on the garden for a few years so was really happy to see it was available through Amazon.It is a superb natural product giving great results in the Garden plants are much stronger and healthy looking.
I think this stuff is wonderful but I noticed there’s a lot of discussion on YouTube about manure and or leaf mould being just as good?
Since visiting the valley of Vesuvius and being completely bowled over by the emerald green of the foliage, I decided to introduce the best quality minerals to my garden soil. I used this and volcanic ash. 6 months later, my garden looks like another place! Apparently the human eye can detect more differences in the colour green than any other colour. Well, the depth of green in my pocket handkerchief piece of England is a sight to behold. Even my husband, who usually walks around semi-comatosed has remarked that the vivid greens around us now are very uplifting. I’ve also introduce an area of intense red spectrum light, by using a very serendipitous device. Plants love the red spectrum. In fact you can take a half dead plant, immerse it in the red spectrum of light and find in under 2 hours the plant has suddenly come alive again? I do this now to bring on all my young specimens from the garden centre. Anyway, this quantity of rock dust goes a long way….
A great help to my garden, however, the postie left it at the shop round the corner instead of on my doorstep so the postmistress carried all 20kg round in one go! Could further bags be left on the doorstep?
finally I’ve got my garden to grow. This stuff is brilliant & I would recomend it to anyone with a waterloged garden as it breaks down slowly & dosen’t wash away.
Have spread the Rock Dust on my allotment as per instructions in December and looking forward to seeing the results in the growing season. Thank you Amazon for the attention and a prompt delivery
I’ve used rock dust in my garden for a couple of years now and find it gives good results. The supplier (Gardening Naturally) delivered the product impressively fast.
his is the future of gardening. massivly boosts mineral content of soil and therefore vegetables. have carried out tests to prove this. dont expect giant veg, it doesnt work like nasty chemicals(which destroy our environment), its the inside the counts, not how it looks, and this most definitely improves the good stuff
Incredible results!
I know all the reviews were good, but I assumed a lot of it was down to their writers’ gardening skills. I don’t have enough time to spend pruning and pampering, so I thought the huge crops people were boasting of were unrealistic for me.
Not so!
I put some around my currants and gooseberries last winter (2013) and this year (2014) they both produced the most enormous fruit I’ve ever seen! Many currents are the size of my thumbnail, plus the bush literally doubled in size. Some of my gooseberries are like small plums – never seen them this big anywhere in any catalogue. They’re almost weird to eat – you feel like you need to take bites rather than pop it all in in one go.
I put rock dust in all of my vegetable beds too. The veg are all doing great, but it’s hard to tell if that is down to the dust or good weather. Seeing my currants and gooseberries though, I’d say it was a safe bet to say it’s the dust. This is definitely one of my favourite purchases. Plus I love the idea that my family will get more minerals from this homegrown veg than anything in the shops.
I have been using this product for several years now on both my fruit and flowers. Each year there seems to be an improvement in both quantity and quality with the added bonus of much less pest and disease problems. It seems that for so long we have, by growing crops, we have almost totally removed and/or reduced these often key mineral elements from our fields and gardens, elements needed for the health and growth of healthy substantial plants. This product replaces these essential elements and the results are there for all to see.
It’s a bit difficult to be completely objective, but it certainly seems to be effective. Last year, I had a rather disappointing harvest of veg; this year… Well, I’ve just today pulled 45lb of spuds out of the ground from just 6 plants (including a 1lb 10oz monster!). I have used some Potato & Fruit Fertiliser as well so, as I say, it’s a bit difficult to be completely objective & scientific about this stuff, but it certainly seems to have helped!
Don’t reagrd this as a fertiliser but as a way of adding vital elements to your soil to improve the nutritional content of your vegetables and present you with wonderful floral displays. I had the biggest and best display of African Marigolds ever after I had given the soil a dressign of Rock Dust. It is long lasting too; you need only dress the soil every three or four years.
his product is fantastic as a top dressing for the lawn, borders and beds, my fruit and veg tastes better for it and i even use a small amount in with my potting mix… very versitile…. i can say as much as i want about this but you really need to try it for your self, results are not instant but they are long lasting,,, about 5 to 6 years… great value for money
Started to get to the end of a bag bought elsewhere so bought this to replace it. Adds micro-nutrients to the soil.
Great service delivered on time and instant results in the garde
I’ve been using volcanic ash for my garden / house plant for the past 2 years .
If the bag content is wet , or delivered into fragmented stones is not a problem at all .
Just like us needing minerals and vitamins , prepare your garden soil with extra . Your rewards will be great .
2x a yea
My mum uses this everywhere. Apparently it helps with plant growth, seems to work!
Put nutrients back into the soil can be added to compost as an activator I buy a bag each year and can see the difference in my plants and on the allotment would recommend.
Volcanic rock dust works together with compost and soil to create a growing medium which benefits the health, strength and productivity of the plants grown. I have used it successfully in growing vegetables.
Nice consistency, not too dusty or too big and rocky. Not sure about the benefits yet but it hasn’t caused any problems.
This arrived on time
Had been repacked by Hermes – but all well and already inuse
Not used the volcanic rock dust yet but will update review when I have.
I’ve put one bag on the veg patch which was depleted after 35 years of growing the same stuff
The other bag I shall use when I’m planting things or feeding them
As you can see from the pictures, I mixed it with compost and watered down. My plants love it!
Arrived promptly very well packed. I have been using this product for some years on my vegetable beds. The soil is very light and sandy. The crops that I get now are far better than before I used Remin.
Good as a top dressing. I apply it fortnightly to my tomatoes.
Really impressed with Delivery service, I will be definitely ordering agai
I’ll update this next year with whether I’ve seen any micro deficiencies.
Product will be used on the garden. I have used before with success.
Third time buy. garden loves it. good for compost too, takes smell away and keeps rodents away from tapping i
Arrived promptly and in good condition. It is a very good texture and crumble sized particles that blend in with other fertilisers.
It’s packed within a box and heavy but I have not used as it’s an early spring treatment.
he product was spread on my lawn as the soil is poor quality. I spread the ground stone through my fertilizer spreader at its widest setting
As described. Not sure really how I tell if it’s working. I bought it on recommendation from another person. It’s very heavy and dense in weight but is actually a fine powder.
Arrived promptly, well packaged. Product looks good and clean. Unfortunately will take 6 mths to see the results!
Like the idea, re-mineralising the ground yet to be determined
Brilliant product. Really helped to nourish the soil in my garden.
We got given a second abandoned plot just this arrived, applied it to both and while we were excavating the head height fire weeds, nettles and mad brambles in the new plot the weeds shot up. Everything is growing bigger, faster and more lush. I’ll be using this in the future as I’ve seen the difference it makes. Not just to the weeds.
I have been using volcanic dust for 2 years now it is brilliant the plants grow much better and yield of fruit and veg is better.
WHO KNOWS is it hype is it really that good only time will tell if its true i should need a wheelbarrow to more my veg about lets just see
Split in bag, but great product (don’t breath the dust)
I intend to use the product to enrich the soil, grow stronger plants and improve the quality the produce that I might grow. I have never used this product before, it was recommended by my who has shown me some of his results, I am now looking forward to the result that I might be rewarded with
Recommended this by a gardener at Arundel Castle who use it to renutrify spent compost. 2 big bags, but too early to say how effective it is
used as a refresh in pots, bonsai and general garden use, volcanic rock dust is “safe” for all life, you can’t over feed, results can be seen in a fairly short time.
Appears to have a very positive impact on plant growth. Have now used the product over two seasons with excellent results.
if you want a good garden this is the stuff to use
Haven’t really seen the results yet but hope it will remineralise my garden vegetables
he rock dust purchased is very good quality and good service.thank you.
Bit early to tell if it’s made any difference, but so far so good
Product arrived as expected. Unfortunately I am not able to add comment on
the results of this product in my garden as yet. It will be a few weeks before the health of the garden can be assessed as a result of the addition on this volcanic dust to the soil
A delivery was on time, I give for it 4 stars not 5… Because its expensive
Very happy with this.
Too soon to see benefits.
More like granules than dust so easy to use.
Everything good re description and delivery but won’t see results until later in the seaso
Used this years ago and got great crops on allotment. Well worth using to perk up your garden soil.
pleased with the difference in my plants since using this highly recomend
This really does help my crops on my two allotments.
This is difficult to rate so early on as the effect of the dust will take a while to kick in. Given that, so far those plants that I’ve tried it on look fine, but it will I believe, not be until next year that I notice a real difference.
Great stuff, very happy with it, also P&P and delivery were excellent.
put this on the compost where my potatoes are growing…they are growing really well….have not harvested any yet.
When I told my wife I was spending some of our hard-earned cash on rock dust she suggested I nip round the building site and get some brick dust!
Very amusing. But this is not like dust at all. It is a dark-grey colour (very volcanic) with a lovely thick friable texture. It is like dry soil. It feels wonderful. Mix this 50:50 with compost and you’d have a great planting medium – I’ve done that for some seeds.
Spreading the volcanic rock dust is a bit of a challenge because it is too thick and clumpy for a fertiliser spreader (for the lawn). A garden sieve might be the best bet for an even spread.
As an experiment I have put this on part on our lawn (which sits on thick clay), in some of our pots, and on a couple of flower beds. We’ll see how it performs. I would like to spread a layer of this all over the sticky clay on our garden but I will probably have to win the lottery for that.
It looks and feels wonderful and I am sure it will help improve the texture of heavy soil as well as add vital elements. It seems pretty good value compared to many soil improvers and is definitely worth a try if you love your garden.
I’ll need to wait to see the results in our garden, but I am hopeful it will do good things.
good stuff for the vegetable plot – adds many missing minerals to the soil. Good value and prompt delivery.
Good all round fertiliser and fast delivery. Can’t ask for more!
How to rate this? It will take time to see if it works as I have heard and read. But it was a very good price.
Have been using rock dust on the garden for a few years so was really happy to see it was available through Amazon.It is a superb natural product giving great results in the Garden plants are much stronger and healthy looking.
Since visiting the valley of Vesuvius and being completely bowled over by the emerald green of the foliage, I decided to introduce the best quality minerals to my garden soil. I used this and volcanic ash. 6 months later, my garden looks like another place! Apparently the human eye can detect more differences in the colour green than any other colour. Well, the depth of green in my pocket handkerchief piece of England is a sight to behold. Even my husband, who usually walks around semi-comatosed has remarked that the vivid greens around us now are very uplifting. I’ve also introduce an area of intense red spectrum light, by using a very serendipitous device. Plants love the red spectrum. In fact you can take a half dead plant, immerse it in the red spectrum of light and find in under 2 hours the plant has suddenly come alive again? I do this now to bring on all my young specimens from the garden centre. Anyway, this quantity of rock dust goes a long way….
A great help to my garden, however, the postie left it at the shop round the corner instead of on my doorstep so the postmistress carried all 20kg round in one go! Could further bags be left on the doorstep?
finally I’ve got my garden to grow. This stuff is brilliant & I would recomend it to anyone with a waterloged garden as it breaks down slowly & dosen’t wash away.
his met expectations, delivery was prompt, will certainly re order wen needed
Unable to review this product. As a gardening additive we are not going to see results until later in the year.
Have spread the Rock Dust on my allotment as per instructions in December and looking forward to seeing the results in the growing season. Thank you Amazon for the attention and a prompt delivery
i have used rock for ten years so it shows how good it is
I’ve used rock dust in my garden for a couple of years now and find it gives good results. The supplier (Gardening Naturally) delivered the product impressively fast.
Yep, the plants all picked up noticeably when we added this stuff
I know all the reviews were good, but I assumed a lot of it was down to their writers’ gardening skills. I don’t have enough time to spend pruning and pampering, so I thought the huge crops people were boasting of were unrealistic for me.
Not so!
I put some around my currants and gooseberries last winter (2013) and this year (2014) they both produced the most enormous fruit I’ve ever seen! Many currents are the size of my thumbnail, plus the bush literally doubled in size. Some of my gooseberries are like small plums – never seen them this big anywhere in any catalogue. They’re almost weird to eat – you feel like you need to take bites rather than pop it all in in one go.
I put rock dust in all of my vegetable beds too. The veg are all doing great, but it’s hard to tell if that is down to the dust or good weather. Seeing my currants and gooseberries though, I’d say it was a safe bet to say it’s the dust. This is definitely one of my favourite purchases. Plus I love the idea that my family will get more minerals from this homegrown veg than anything in the shops.