ZANDER
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The lower tier

The full reference.

Everything behind the highlighted words. Each entry can be read on its own, and any term inside it opens the next one down.

The material

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What Zander actually is

An organic sediment laid down one millimetre a year, for fifteen thousand years, at the bottom of slow northern lakes.

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Product

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Zander Humus

The base product. A wholly organic fibre, 80–90% organic matter, that holds water, holds fertiliser, and holds salt away from roots.

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Zander AridGrow Mycorrhiza

Six strains of root fungus, selected out of saline arid ground, that take over the running of the plant.

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Zander Humate

A dilutable liquid extract of the parent material. One litre treats a hectare. It is the part of the system that travels.

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Science

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Working in salt

Most arid-land agriculture does not fail for want of water. It fails because the water it gets leaves salt behind.

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Decontamination

The same ion-grabbing chemistry that holds salt away from a root will hold lead, mercury and uranium out of water.

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What we claim, and what we don't

A soil amendment is easy to oversell. Here is where our evidence stops.

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In practice

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Establishing plantations

The largest single cost in an orchard is replacing what dies in the first two summers.

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Cereals, and the seed-coating problem

Seventy kilos of ammonium nitrate a hectare is the convention. The FAO gives that convention fifty years.

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Growing crops with Zander

Almost any soil will serve as a substrate. What matters is knowing when to sow.

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Golf courses and amenity landscaping

A permanent green sward in a hot, arid country — and no drip-feeding after the first six weeks.

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Which problem are you solving?

Most people arrive with a symptom rather than a crop. This page routes the common ones to the part of the system that answers them.

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Field trial

04

Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia — olives

Ten months, in the desert, against a control on better ground. The treated trees drew 92.8% less water and caught up anyway.

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Bouarfa, Morocco — Aleppo pine

Nine weeks after planting, the roots told the whole story. Those running the trial judged the increment equal to two years' growth.

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Mindanao, the Philippines — bananas

Two plots, one plantation, one photograph each.

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Kenya — capsicum and tomato under glass

Humate alone against the recommended rate of DAP fertiliser. Germination went from one in ten to ten in ten.

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