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It’s past Memorial Day. School’s out in about another week. It’s supposed to hit 93 in a few days. You know what that means? Time to get the swimming pool open!

There’s nothing more inviting on a hot sunny day than a beautiful, crystal clear swimming pool. But how does it get that way?

Soil amendments have been around for many years.  Their use has historically been primarily in various sport field applications, including golf course greens, rooftop gardens, soccer pitches, and football fields, but soil amendments have also been used in projects including the landscaping of roadsides, parks and private and municipal landscape projects such as museums, and botanical gardens. So what exactly are soil amendments? 

Finally, the weather's good enough, and we can all start gardening! From Natural Living Ideas, here's a good post on all the different uses for diatomaceous earth in the garden.  Time to get out there and use our green thumbs!

This week is International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW). It’s the world’s largest and most comprehensive education initiative of the compost industry, designed to showcase compost production and demonstrate compost use. The event promotes composting in homes, schools and industries in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other countries around the world.

EP Minerals Play Ball! turns John C Birdlebough High School baseball infield from mud and puddles to dry and playable

Picture this. It’s 8:30 in the morning yesterday in Phoenix, New York. 28 degrees. And our sales representative David Rooker is standing on the edge of the John C Birdlebough High School baseball field with the groundskeeper for the Phoenix NY Central School District. What they saw - a baseball field partially covered with ice, soaking wet and muddy with big puddles of water.

Oh, and there was a game scheduled yesterday at 3pm.  

What to do?

We’ve got a fan! The Reno Aces, our local AAA affiliate for the Arizona Diamondbacks, is a big fan of EP Minerals’ BallGame Changer premium infield conditioner. According to Head Groundskeeper Eric Blanton, the product is reducing the team’s infield and warning track water usage by 50% and saving them a lot of work.

 New CelaPool low dust swim pool filter aid creates a sparkling clear and clean pool

Today is a great day. It's been about a year and a half to get to this point and we're very happy to announce the launch of CelaPool^TM, a revolutionary new low dust diatomaceous earth (DE) filter aid for the swimming pool industry. CelaPool is an exclusive patent-pending product that contains EP Minerals’ Celatom DE, the number one choice of swim pool professionals. CelaPool is a unique low dust formulation, making for easy handling and less mess. See the CelaPool video here: New Low Dust CelaPool

 EP Minerals' BallGame Changer infield conditioner on the field at Reno Aces

It’s only a few more days until the first baseball spring training game. Here at EP Minerals, we love baseball! Go Giants! And Dodgers, and Nats, Tigers, Pirates and our hometown Reno Aces. I think I’ve covered all the favorite teams here in our office. We’re a diehard bunch when it comes to baseball, and softball, too, as we have a world series of softball player on our marketing team. We love everything about baseball – talking about the players, the drama, the start of great weather, the food, and our favorite part  - our baseball infield conditioners! We absolutely love to see our BallGame Changer and PlayBall! products in action on those MLB, minor league, college and high school baseball and softball infields. These new baseball infield products comprise the complete line of our Groundskeeper’s Choice 100% natural, high-performance super calcined clay solutions.

With input from a good story by Jason Notte, columnist for MarketWatch

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