STOCKOSORB® Long-Term Water Storage Granules, Plant Granulate, Hydrogel, Soil Conditioner, Aquagel, For Indoor And Outdoor Use, For Potted Plants For Bedding and Balcony Plants, Less Watering, Less Dry Stress For Your Plants

Works amazingly well.Far superior to usual UK brands bought from garden centres.Really does cut down on watering substantially.Definitely going to remove some compost from my tomato grow bags & add some of this.What more can I say - does what it claims *_*

They seem like good value and, as far as we can tell - they are in the soil in pots and baskets - they work. Certainly none of our plants have died!

Great stuff if you don't want to keep watering you garden and want to save water. I put it every where in my lawns all my beds and boarders pot and baskets I only water my plant 2 a week unless it very very hot. TRY IT!!! MIX IT INTO YOUR SOIL

Great product. Distinct lack of instructions on the packaging though. I had to google for the proportion of crystal to compost.

it does help from watering your plants as much, don't put too much in, it is trial and error, a couple of spoonfuls in baskets, it all depends on the size of your planters and baskets, it does expand quite a lot so go easy on it.

Does the job it is supposed to do - stores water in the pot to keep the plant hydrated longer.

Some years ago we had a swimming pool in our back garden that was backfilled partly with the concrete from the pool and surroundings and now the grass area above suffers badly due to the good drainage caused by the concrete below during periods of dry weather. We placed these under a new lawn to see if they will help retain moisture but its too early to report on any results at the time of writing but we have some concerns with the lack of English on both the website and packaging regarding the health and safely info for this product. During the mixing of this product with the sub soil some of the small beads got attached to the workers shoes as they walked around the garden and later after it had rained and the garden was watered a large number of marble sized packages were found to be spread out all over our back garden. Being dog owners we looked everywhere if the product would harm our pets or children visiting our garden and no advice could be found so only awarding 1 star short term until the problem is sorted to help protect others.

I have added 1 tablespoon to 1 litre of water and as you can see from the images it does expand. I used that to about 8 litres of compost in a 14" hanging basket which I've planted up. I don't know how well it performs because it's rained every day. I shall update this after we've had a warm spell to see if I still have to water the baskets every single day.