What's in Your Living Soil

Living Soil · Ingredients

Every ingredient earns its place

Fifteen to eighteen inputs in each blend, listed one by one — no fillers, no mystery base. Here is what each one is actually for.

The backbone

Alfalfa meal
Organically grown, milled fine

The backbone of every blend. A slow, plant-based nitrogen with a broad spread of macro and micronutrients, grown organically in Eastern Europe. It also carries triacontanol, a natural growth stimulant first identified in the alfalfa leaf. It feeds the plant and the soil in one, and it is what everything else is built around.

Nitrogen & biostimulants

The gentle push, in forms soil life and roots take up easily.

Amino-acid nitrogen
From molasses extract

A readily available nitrogen carried as amino acids — the form roots and soil microbes use most directly, without the surge of a synthetic salt.

Seaweed meal
Milled cold-water kelp

A broad trace-element package and the natural biostimulant compounds seaweed is valued for. A steady, mild lift rather than a spike.

The minerals

Calcium, magnesium, potassium and the one-time phosphorus — in gentle, soil-friendly forms.

Gypsum
Calcium & sulphur

Feeds calcium and sulphur without shifting soil pH — unlike lime, which pushes it up.

Kieserite
Magnesium & sulphur

Readily available magnesium — the mineral behind a deep green leaf — with sulphur alongside.

Sulphate of potash
Potassium & sulphur

Chloride-free potassium, kinder to soil life and to flavour than the muriate (chloride) form most feeds use.

The phosphorus charge
Bone meal or rock phosphate

The one-time phosphorus, worked in at the start and banked in the soil — sized to sufficiency, never fed again. Why it goes in once →

Soil conditioners

The inputs that do not feed the plant directly — they make the soil hold on to what does.

Zeolite
High-CEC mineral

A crystalline mineral with a cation-exchange capacity several times that of ordinary soil. It holds nutrients and water in the root zone and hands them back slowly, so less leaches away.

Biochar
Porous carbon

Holds water and nutrients and gives soil life somewhere to live. It does not feed the plant itself; it helps the soil keep what does.

The living part

A living soil is only as good as the biology in it. These keep it fed.

Bokashi bran
Fermented bran

Brings beneficial microbes and the food to keep them going, so the soil is alive from the first watering.

Malted barley
Natural enzymes

A source of enzymes and sugars that feed the soil's microbes and help release what is bound in the minerals.

Humic & fulvic acid
Carbon compounds

Carbon-rich compounds that help the soil hold nutrients and move them toward the root. A steady background benefit — we do not claim more than the evidence gives.

Every ingredient is listed individually on each product, with its inclusion rate. No blends, no undisclosed base, no slaughterhouse by-products in the plant-based line.

Built from all of the above See the Living Soil programme →
Dr Forest — Made with organic ingredients, handcrafted in Stockport. Full transparency, every ingredient named.