Sweet PDZ vs Zeolite

[R2elk]

I called a large Ottawa based feed and seed store (Ritchie's). They have Azomite @ $66/40 lbs. It is sold as a soil amendment but is natural volcanic zeolite mined in Utah.

I don't know where you got your information but azomite is not a zeolite.

http://bmdeptoa.blogspot.com/2015/04/azomite-vs-zeolite.html

 

[aart]

Wonders how big are those granules...they couldn't stick a measure in the pic?
Am going to do that with the PDZ here pretty quick,
after my egg customer arrives and leaves.

So here's the size of the Sweet PDZ-Granulated(kinda fuzzy-sorry)...it works great on my poop boards with the my sifter basket. MM and 1/16".

 

[Ted Brown]

I don't know where you got your information but azomite is not a zeolite.

http://bmdeptoa.blogspot.com/2015/04/azomite-vs-zeolite.html

Good catch, you obviously did better research than I did or have better prior knowledge (I have none). Of particular importance is the fact that the article you linked to says Azomite "contributes very little to water retention".

Thanks for correcting me.

 

[R2elk]

Good catch, you obviously did better research than I did or have better prior knowledge (I have none). Of particular importance is the fact that the article you linked to says Azomite "contributes very little to water retention".

Thanks for correcting me.

I use azomite in the garden because of the trace minerals that my soil (sand) is lacking. It makes an amazing difference. The azomite that I use dissolves very easily in water.

 

[Purple_grape84]

I have seen the horse stall odour control bags, prob 40lb, at Peavey Mart.
@MiaS it's great to meet a fellow Albertan! Yes it is very frustrating trying to find equivalent products here in Canada!

 

[MiaS]

I have seen the horse stall odour control bags, prob 40lb, at Peavey Mart.
@MiaS it's great to meet a fellow Albertan! Yes it is very frustrating trying to find equivalent products here in Canada!

Well hello and boy is it ever! I'll check Peavey Mart. Where in Alberta are you?

 

[MiaS]

So here's the size of the Sweet PDZ-Granulated(kinda fuzzy-sorry)...it works great on my poop boards with the my sifter basket. MM and 1/16".
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I'd say the zeolite that I have is pretty similar in size, it is a bit of a different color, more gray/greenish but perhaps that is a 'where it is mined' thing. They do all appear to be clinoptilolite zeolite which is partly why I think the stuff I have or can buy at the garden centre may work fine.

 

[MiaS]

Not sure about what you are referring to - my first link above is Turf and Kennel which states it is "Organic & all-natural; processed and produced in the USA" (but you already know that as you stated).

Oops maybe it wasn't you that posted that very first option. It was too expensive when you look at the size of the bag anyway...

 

[aart]

I'd say the zeolite that I have is pretty similar in size, it is a bit of a different color, more gray/greenish but perhaps that is a 'where it is mined' thing. They do all appear to be clinoptilolite zeolite which is partly why I think the stuff I have or can buy at the garden centre may work fine.

Give it a shot!
Glad to know it's a garden amendment...as all my poop goes into someone's compost to make garden soil and inevitably there's PDZ in there too.

 

[Purple_grape84]

Well hello and boy is it ever! I'll check Peavey Mart. Where in Alberta are you?

I'm north of Edmonton by Lamont. You?