Organic Malted Barley | Diastatic Enzyme Boost
Diastatic malted barley to feed soil enzymes and microbes.
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Our brand new Soil Food range of premium organic soil amendments, designed specifically for Ecothrive Living Soil is finally here! Comprising three products, Soil Food Grow, Soil Food Bloom, and Soil Food Re-Gen, these carefully crafted blends of organic inputs have been designed to give living soil growers a powerful and easy-to-use toolkit to nourish plants and simplify living soil reuse.
Soil Food is designed to support specific stages in the plant life-cycle and help you to achieve outstanding results from your living soil grow. By supplying essential organic nutrition in an easily assimilable, ready to use top dressing powder, you both feed your plants and promote a thriving microbial living soil ecosystem.
Whether you’re growing in pots or soil beds, the Soil Food range makes it easy. Together, Soil Food Grow, Bloom, and Re-Gen form a complete organic powdered nutrient system that takes the guesswork out of soil management.
Each Soil Food product is designed to meet a specific need in the growing cycle, but together they create a complete solution for living soil management. By investing in the full range, you ensure your soil has everything it needs at every stage of growth, from vigorous vegetative development to abundant flowering and beyond.
Tried and Tested:
Soil Food has truly been a labour of love for us. We’ve spent years carefully selecting and sourcing every ingredient to serve a specific purpose. Every bag of Soil Food represents countless soil tests, meticulous growth trials, and many, many late nights! Now it’s time for you to test and see the results for yourself. One thing’s for sure—Soil Food takes the hard work out of soil management so getting your organic plants to reach their full potential has never been easier!
Soil Food – Grow
Organic Top-Dress Soil Amendment | Feeds and Enriches Soil Life
For robust and vigorous vegetative growth. Use Soil Food Grow during the vegetative growth phase to provide your plants with a steady and balanced supply of essential nutrients to support root, stem and leaf production. This potent organic top-dress amendment is designed to invigorate soil biology and ensure optimal nitrogen availability, supporting a sturdy plant structure and an abundance of lush, healthy foliage.
The Key Ingredient: Soy Amino Hydrolysate
Fuel your plants’ vegetative phase with Soil Food – Grow, enriched with soy amino hydrolysate—a fast-acting organic ‘amine’ nitrogen source that gives plants an effortless nutrient boost. Amine nitrogen is a highly accessible form of nitrogen that plants absorb effortlessly, speeding up growth. By supplying nitrogen in this form, it energises growth while driving soil biology into high gear.
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With Soil Food Grow, your plants will power through the vegetative phase. When it’s time to transition to flowering, switch to Soil Food Bloom to promote healthy flower formation and abundant blooms.
Soil Food - Bloom
Organic Top-Dress Soil Amendment | Crafted to Promote Abundant Flowers
For abundant buds, flowers and fruits. Transition to Soil Food Bloom when your plants begin to enter their flowering phase. This blend is specifically crafted to reduce nitrogen while boosting potassium and phosphorus levels—a key nutritional cue to send flowering plants into overdrive. It provides your plants with the nutrients they need for healthy flower formation and aromatic, high-quality yields. Ideal for use throughout the early and mid-flowering stages.
The Key Ingredient: Potassium Lignosulphonate
The secret to Soil Food Bloom’s exceptional performance is potassium lignosulphonate, a unique organic source of potassium enriched with 80% fulvic acid. Fulvic acid doesn’t just deliver potassium; it also enhances the availability of phosphorus, calcium, and other nutrients, ensuring your plants have everything they need for optimal bud formation and incredible flower power!
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Switch to Soil Food Bloom as flowers begin to form and watch your plants reward you with vibrant, high-quality blooms. After harvesting, use Soil Food Re-Gen to revitalise and re-nourish your living soil for your next crop!
Soil Food Re-Gen
Organic Soil Amendment | Restores and Revitalises Soil Life
For revitalising soil between crops. After harvesting, use Soil Food Re-Gen to restore depleted living soil. This expertly formulated organic soil amendment replenishes key nutrients and minerals, supporting microbial life and restoring the perfect soil nutritional environment for your next crop. Apply during your soil preparation phase to maintain a sustainable growing system.
The Key Ingredient: Olivine
The standout ingredient in Soil Food Re-Gen is olivine, a magnesium iron silicate that provides a slow, consistent release of magnesium and silicon. Magnesium is essential for chlorophyll production, while silicon strengthens plant tissues, making them more resilient to stress.
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Use Soil Food Re-Gen at the end of each crop cycle. This long-lasting nutrition supports early vegetative growth, after which you can top-dress with Soil Food Grow to continue nourishing your plants.
Soil Food – Grow
Nitrogen (N) - 3.5%
Phosphorus (P2O5) - 3% (1.3% P)
Potassium K2O) - 4.5% (3.8% K)
Also contains 6% Calcium, 1% Magnesium, 4% Sulphur plus 6% Amino Acids.
Soil Food Bloom
Nitrogen (N) - 2%
Phosphorus (P2O5) - 8% (3.5% P)
Potassium (K2O) - 6% (5% K)
Also contains 10% Calcium, 1% Magnesium, 2.5% Sulphur plus 2.5% Fulvic Acids.
Soil Food Re-Gen
Nitrogen (N) - 3.5%
Phosphorus (P2O5) - 5.5% (2.5% P)
Potassium (K2O) - 3.5% (3% K)
Also contains 10% Calcium, 1% Magnesium plus 4% Sulphur.
How to Use Soil Food Grow and Bloom
Indoor Use - Established Plants
Use 1-2g per litre of soil
Calculate based on the soil volume in the top 15cm of your pot or bed.
Top-dress onto the soil surface and scratch into the top 2-4cm. Water after application.
In smaller pots, nutrition depletes faster than in larger pots. Always react to your plants’ needs and your growing conditions.
Soil Food Grow - For 40-60L pots apply during the late vegetative or early transition phase, 3-4 weeks after planting.
Soil Food Bloom - For 40-60L pots apply during the early generative phase, once flowers have started to form. Some cultivars benefit from a second application 2-3 weeks later. Avoid applying top dresses 4-5 weeks before harvest.
Outdoor Use
Field or Garden Soil
Established Crops: Top-dress 100-200g per m2.
Scratch into the top 2-4cm of soil.
Water after application.
Repeat every 4-6 weeks.
How to Use Soil Food Re-Gen
Soil Food Re-gen should be blended into soil after harvesting to restore depleted soil.
Indoor Use - Established Plants
Use 2-4g per litre of soil
For large pots or beds, calculate based on the soil volume in the top 20-25cm of your pot or bed.
For pots up to 25L, empty the soil and re-mix with the recommended amount of Re-Gen.
Use 2g per litre if the plants showed minimal fading toward the end of the previous cycle.
Use 4g per litre if most of the large leaves yellowed before harvest.
Always react to your plants’ needs and your growing conditions. For more application information, visit our website.
The guide below is based on a low-till approach of hand blending Soil Food Re-Gen into the top 23cm of soil.
Outdoor Use
Field or Garden Soil
Depleted Soil: apply 400-600g per m2.
Fork into the top 20-25cm of soil.
Water after application.

Diastatic malted barley to feed soil enzymes and microbes.
from £10.99