Lightweight expanded shale and clay (ES&C) soil conditioner is playing a new and valuable role in today's horticulture.
It is generally understood that to achieve healthy turf and other plant life, it may be necessary to amend soils with materials that promote strong root development. Soil is a fragile growing medium consisting of three components: solid particles, water and air. Maintaining a careful balance of these elements is necessary to establish a good soil profile.
The following physical characteristics explain why ES&C performs well in many varied soil conditioner applications. These characteristics include:
- Environmentally friendly, made from natural material
- Improves drainage and aeration
- Non-toxic and odorless
- 100 percent inert, inorganic
- Will not compress, degrade, decompose, or react with agricultural or horticultural chemicals
- Retains a high percentage of its weight in absorbed water, giving it the ability to release the water to the root system at a later time
ES&C is also user-friendly because it is:
- Lightweight
- Easy to handle
- Economical
- Readily available
- Soil conditioner (landscape mixes, roof gardens, plants, trees, potting soil, etc.)
- Soil amendments for turf (lawns, athletic fields, polo fields, horse tracks)
- Decorative (ground cover)
- Mud blocker (Horse stalls, pens, walkways, fill-in for low wet problem spots)
- Walking trails, running tracks
- Herbicide and fertilizer carrier
- Hydroponics
- Structural soil
- Backfill
- Drainage gravel
Pave Grow®
A blend of TXI's Expanded Shale and Clay lightweight aggregate and a suitable sandy clay loam properly mixed and compacted for use as a temporary, overflow parking surface.
Pave Grow reduces erosion and is an excellent growing medium with load carrying capacity that provides an aesthetically pleasing permeable surface that satisfies increasing requirements for "Green Space". Pave Grow generates less heat than asphalt or concrete and reduces water runoff and erosion.
Bella Mar Amenity Center and Overflow Parking
Planned housing community near Austin, Texas uses Pave Grow(R) Pedestrian Mix and Vehicular Mix for growing medium and erosion reduction.
Overflow Parking at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas
TXI Pave Grow® was used to construct a four-acre parcel of land for overflow parking at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys National Football League team.
