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Wonder Soil Expanding Coir-Based Dry Mixes03-30-16 | News

Wonder Soil Expanding Coir-Based Dry Mixes
Delivery System for Nutrients and Protective Cover for the Seeds

by Patti Donner Rubin, CEO WonderSoil

Wonder Soil is a dynamic agricultural solution company with a primary manufacturing facility in Las Vegas that holds a series of patents for expanding soil products.

The company has a number of expanding planting mixes that expand up to nine times their dry state when combined with water. These patented materials can save up to 90 percent on shipping costs, storage, power, labor and water.

Its mixes are biodegradable and promote faster germination with stronger root systems, enabling better growth and healthier grasses, plants, flowers and crops.

WonderSoil's prime ingredient is coconut fiber, which is a renewable resource. The product is shipped dry and compressed. Within seconds of adding water, it expands seven times its original size. The company offers custom blends and ships nationally and internationally at a fraction of the price of most conventional soils.
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WonderSoil is a market innovator in using expandable, renewable resources to mix and manufacture complete growing mediums and solutions using a coir base. Coir is the fiber and dust material that is found between the nut and the husk of the coconut. Coir acts as a bulking agent and has remarkable expanding properties when compressed and expanded with proprietary formulas and technology.

Its formulas allow for the introduction of amendments that cannot be included in traditional moist mixes. Wonder Soil rehydrates and expands with a core, polymer and zeolite formula that uses 50 percent less water to expand. it has long-term water capability ensuring less energy, manpower and water to maintain.

The company's mission is to make a global difference by creating a growing medium that rejuvenates bad soil, increases agricultural productivity, helps put and end to malnutrition and saves up to 50 percent water, even in compromising conditions.
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The ideal solution can be used for arid, desert regions. In bulk, reground form can be manufactured and shipped efficiently – saving space and shipping costs. It can be shipped worldwide for an average of $.10 per pound, in containers with 45,000 pounds of capacity. A single container dry container will yield over 300,000 pounds of expanded product.

Wonder Soil has discovered a formulated mix using a sand base combined with a 40 to 60 percent mix that has been proven to be an ideal growing medium. This mix, along with nutrients provides a Wonder Soil solution – halving the cost of the pre-sand mix by up to 50 percent.

The system delivers seeds, plants, grasses, crops and flowers with custom mixes produced for specific regions. These formulas are 97 percent organic and create cost savings in delivery and maintenance. This system provides the highest quality growing mediums possible. For additional information please call (702) 368-5800 or visit www.wondersoil.com.