Seacliff Organics Replenish Mix

Seacliff Organics Replenish Mix

A DIY living soil amendment pack: the same dry amendments in the same ratios as Seacliff Organics Living Soil, weighed to build 50 litres of soil or to re-amend used living soil several times over. It suits growers building their own soil or recycling it between crops.

At a glance

• Type: fertiliser blend (dry living soil amendment pack)
• Analysis: NPK = 1 - 5.5 - 1.8 (N, P₂O₅, K₂O); elemental 1 - 2.4 - 1.5
• Use for: building living soil at home, re-amending used living soil, general garden fertiliser
• Rate: one pack per 50 litres of new soil base; 30 to 60 g per 5 litres when re-amending
• Pack sizes: larger sizes by email to store@seaclifforganics.nz

What it is

Made by Seacliff Organics in Otago. The pack contains everything in our Living Soil in the same ratios, with two differences: TM7 supplies the trace minerals instead of single source salts, and andesite is left out. Andesite is not needed when re-amending, and can be bought separately when building new soil; it is optional.

Amendments: ag lime, oyster shell meal, gypsum, colloidal soft rock phosphate, fish bone meal, potassium sulphate, Zelp, Acadian kelp, basalt rock dust, malted barley, BioAg TM7, fish meal, amino acids, flaxseed meal, neem meal, karanja meal and yucca extract.

What it does

• Builds the mineral base of a living soil: calcium from lime, oyster shell and gypsum, phosphorus from soft rock phosphate and fish bone meal, potassium from sulphate of potash.
• Supplies slow nitrogen from the meals (fish, flax, neem, karanja) and fast nitrogen from amino acids, with kelp, barley and yucca for the biology.
• Re-amends used living soil, so a pot can be recycled with the addition of a little compost or worm castings rather than replaced. One pack re-amends a 50 litre pot of our living soil about five times.
• Can also be used as a general garden fertiliser.

How to use

• To build soil: one pack makes 50 litres of soil base mix. See our blog for the soil building process. A base mix that suits this pack is 50% peat moss, 15% worm castings and 35% pumice (or 30% pumice with 5 percent biochar). If the pH is too high, add more peat. Cook for 4 weeks: turn on the second day, then once a week.
• To re-amend Seacliff Organics Living Soil: use 30 to 60 grams of Replenish Mix for every 5 litres of soil, with three quarters of a cup of worm castings or compost and three quarters of a cup of pumice or oat husks per 5 litres. Mix through the whole volume as best you can, or till through the top half.
• Top dressing: scuff a handful into the first few centimetres of soil.
• Bulk Replenish and larger sizes: email store@seaclifforganics.nz.

Learn more in fifteen seconds

• What's in the bag
• More isn't better
• Soil pH, water pH: how to move it

Handling and storage

• Wear a mask to avoid inhaling particles and open in a well ventilated area.
• Wear gloves and eye protection, and wash hands after use.
• Once opened, keep sealed and dry.