Absorb Carbon Dioxide & Boost Soil Health with Pro-Grow Rockdust

Absorb Carbon Dioxide & Boost Soil Health with Pro-Grow Rockdust

Last week at the Four Oaks Trade Show we launched our latest product to the Pro-Grow range, Rockdust.

We had a cracking couple of days at the Four Oaks trade show in Middlewich last week with Veolia's Special Projects  Manager and Rockdust specialist, Jennifer Brodie, launching a new natural Rockdust product that will boost soil health and help counter climate change by capturing inorganic carbon dioxide.

Pro-Grow Rockdust, has been selected to meet the diverse needs of every grower from the window box and patio tub gardener, to allotment holders and community gardeners and schools, to commercial growers, local authorities and landscape gardeners, and provides an organically approved way to increase healthy plant growth, and accelerate natural composting processes.

What is Rockdust?

Pro-Grow Rockdust is an ancient mineral-laden volcanic rockdust, rich in nutrients to boost soil and compost whilst capturing carbon.

Carbon capture product based on research published by Newcastle University.

  • This 100% natural, mineral laden top dressing for soil is created as a by-product during quarrying and is rich in macro and micro nutrients to remineralise your soil.
  • 1 part by weight of Pro-Grow Rockdust captures up to 25% by weight of the greenhouse gas Carbon dioxide (CO2).
  • Via a process called “Enhanced Weathering”, CO2 is taken out of the biological cycle and locked away into the geological cycle for thousands of years.
  • The rich minerals in this carefully chosen rock boosts the soil biology that then makes the minerals in the rockdust, and those already in the soil, more bioavailable to the plants.
  • When composting, Pro-Grow Rockdust works as an activator by providing carbon to help balance the high nitrogen in grass cuttings, fruit & vegetable peel.
  • By gardening with Pro-Grow Rockdust you are helping to combat climate change whilst improving your soil.

How to buy Rockdust

Pro-Grow Rockdust will be available to buy in a range of sizes for gardeners and professional growers from October 2024, including;

- 0.5T and 1T bulky bags

- Half pallets of 50 * 10kg bags 

- Full pallets of 100 * 10kg bags

- Boxes of 12 * 500g tubes

- Loose loads delivered directly to customers site

To pre-order or find out more, please contact Pro-Grow@Veolia.com.

Read Veolia's press release about the Rockdust launch here: https://www.veolia.co.uk/press-releases/veolias-innovative-new-rockdust-will-absorb-carbon-dioxide-and-boost-soil-health

Posted by Lucy Jones
9th September 2024

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