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Foliar fertilisation means spraying dissolved nutrients directly onto plant leaves, where they're absorbed through the leaf surface and bypass the soil entirely. It's most useful for correcting mid-season deficiencies quickly, delivering micronutrients that soil chemistry is locking up, and supporting plants at critical growth stages when you can..
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Fulvic Acid Explained: How Fulvex 9500 Unlocks Nutrients Plants Can Actually Use
Category: Soil Health
Quick answer: Fulvic acid helps plants access nutrients that may already exist in the soil but are chemically locked up and unavailable. Fulvex 9500 is a highly concentrated 95% pure fulvic acid that works as a natural chelator, binding minera..
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Healthy horse paddocks in NZ need a three-pronged seasonal approach: weed control for persistent species like docks and buttercups, residual fly and tick management through summer, and trace mineral support to fill gaps that good pasture alone can miss.
✓Docks and buttercups reduce pasture quality and can irritate horses; treat in early spring..
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Foliar fertilisation means spraying dissolved nutrients directly onto plant leaves, where they're absorbed through the leaf surface and bypass the soil entirely. It's most useful for correcting mid-season deficiencies quickly, delivering micronutrients that soil chemistry is locking up, and supporting plants at critical growth stages when you can..
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Note: This article was last updated March 2026
What Can We Use Instead of Banvine(1)?
Quick answer: Banvine(1) contained 200g/L 2,4-D and 100g/L dicamba. The closest ready-mixed alternative from Rainbow & Brown is LawnMate. A lower-cost option is to use individual herbicides such as WHACK – 2,4-D 800 and Rainbow & Brown Dicamba 500 SL, but any ..