Wetter Soil
Makes water soak in instead of running off.
Wetter Soil is Brunnings Easy Wetta Granules, 10kg net, treating up to 200 square metres. It lowers the surface tension of water so it soaks into the soil instead of beading and running off — which is the specific failure mode of dry Perth sand — and it lasts up to six months per application.
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Wetter Soil details
Wetter Soil at a glance
- Product type
- Soil wetting agent, granular
- Brand
- Brunnings, Easy Wetta Granules
- Pack
- 10kg net
- Treats
- Up to 200m²
- Lasts
- Up to 6 months
- For
- Gardens, pots and lawns
What Wetter Soil suits
What can you use Wetter Soil for?
Water-repellent lawns
The classic case: dry patches that stay dry no matter how long the reticulation runs. That is repellence, not a lack of water.
Garden beds that shed water
Where water pools in one corner of a bed and the rest stays dry. The water is going somewhere, just not in.
Pots and containers
Potting mix that has dried right out is famously hard to re-wet. Water runs down the gap between the mix and the pot and straight out the bottom.
Before summer
Applied ahead of the dry months it is doing its job when the soil is at its most repellent, rather than after you have noticed the problem.
How much Wetter Soil do you need?
One bag does most of a garden
Ten kilograms treats up to two hundred square metres, which is Brunnings' figure read off the bag. That covers the lawn and the beds of a typical suburban block.
Measure the area you actually want treated rather than the whole property — treating ground that drains fine is money doing nothing.
| Area | Bags | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| A front lawn, about 80m² | Under half a bag | Spread with a lawn spreader for even coverage. |
| Lawn and beds, about 200m² | One 10kg bag | The figure the pack is built around. |
| A large block, 400m² plus | Two bags or more | Do it in sections rather than trying to stretch one bag thin. |
Water it in thoroughly after spreading — the granules have to wash into the soil to do anything. Apply in autumn or spring rather than in the middle of summer, so it is working before the soil is at its worst.
Wetter Soil in Perth
Water repellence is the Perth problem
Sand goes water repellent when it dries out, and Perth sand spends several months a year doing exactly that. A waxy organic coating develops on the grains, water beads instead of wetting them, and the bed sheds water that it desperately needs.
It is why a lawn can have a dry patch that stays dry through an entire reticulation cycle while the grass a metre away is fine. The water is arriving. It is running off.
Under a watering roster that matters more than it would elsewhere: the water comes on two or three fixed days, and if it runs off on those days there is no second chance until the next one.
Why Wetter Soil
Why choose Wetter Soil?
It treats 200m² for one bag
Ten kilograms, up to two hundred square metres. That is most of a suburban front and back garden from a single bag.
It works on the actual problem
Repellent sand does not need more water, it needs water that can get in. Running the sprinklers longer is spending money on the wrong thing.
Six months an application
Long enough to cover a Perth summer from a single autumn or spring application.
Granular, so it spreads evenly
Granules go down with a spreader and wash in. Far easier to get even coverage than with a liquid on a large area.
Getting Wetter Soil home
How to get Wetter Soil
Collect from the yard
Open seven days at 222 Barrington St, Bibra Lake. The loader puts it straight into your trailer or ute, and someone will tell you whether what you have brought will carry the load.
Borrow one of our trailers free for two hours to get your load home. No charge, no bond.
Have it delivered
Across Perth's southern suburbs, seven days. For a quote we need the address, how much you need, and anything awkward about access — tight driveways, low branches and side access all change which truck we send. Confirm the current cost when you order.
Formats
- Loose, by the cubic metre
- Bulka bag, roughly a cubic metre each
- Trailer load, including our free two hour trailer
Using Wetter Soil
How to use Wetter Soil
Spread it evenly
Granules over lawns, beds or potting media, with a spreader on anything larger than a bed. Even coverage matters — a missed strip stays repellent.
Water it in
The granules have to wash into the soil to work. Water thoroughly after spreading rather than waiting for the next rain.
Do it before summer, not during
Applied in autumn or spring it is working when the soil goes into its dry months. Applied in February you are treating a problem that already has hold.
Repeat about every six months
Brunnings put it at up to six months per application. It is a treatment rather than a cure, and that is the honest way to think about it.
When to choose something else
When it is the wrong product
- It is not a cure. It changes how water behaves for about six months and then the soil is what it was. Clay is the permanent answer, and this is the thing you do while you get around to that.
- It is not a fertiliser and it is not organic. It does nothing for fertility, and Brunnings do not publish the active ingredients, so we are not going to list any.
- It will not fix a bed that is genuinely short of water. If the reticulation is not reaching an area, a wetting agent does not help — check the coverage first.
- Applied unevenly it works unevenly. A missed strip stays repellent and shows up as a dry line across an otherwise recovered lawn.
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The permanent version of this fix
Clay changes the soil rather than the water.
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A soil with humus in it holds water without needing a wetter.
Feeding the lawn as well
If the lawn is thin as well as dry.
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