
Located in Malmesbury, Western Cape, South Africa, the nursery serves landscaping companies, local gardening shops, as well as home gardening customers
Haifa Multicote™ products were chosen to provide the plant nutrition solution to the nursery.
“We use a combination of the Multicote™ (8) 15-3-12+Mg+Me and Multicote™ (2) 42-0-0” said Mr. Johan Retief, Malmesbury Groothandel Kwekery CEO.
“The Haifa Multicote™ products provide us with a huge saving on our annual fertilizer account. Due to the controlled release fertilizers all the plants grow very evenly.
Having an 8 month release also saves on the labour as it is only applied once per season, and reduces fertilizer wastage”.
At the nursery we mix 50kg Multicote™ (8) 15-3-12+Mg+Me and 20kg Multicote™ (2) 42-0-0 together. After mixing the Multicote™ products we apply 7g of the blend per litre of growing medium and mix it together with the growing medium in a concrete mixer. For the older plants, such as trees and shrubs which spend 2 or more seasons in the nursery we re-apply the Multicote™ blend at 5g per litre of growing medium. The nursery team make 3 holes around the base of each plant’s stem, about 5cm from the stem, using a teflon peg, dividing the dosage evenly into each hole.