Looking for the ultimate organic potting mix? Eco-Life is a supercharged living soil that’s packed full of premium quality organic inputs and beneficial microbiology. Crafted by Gareth and his team at Ecothrive in collaboration with soil specialist Ben at Indoor Organics, this ready-to-use living organic soil is ideal for filling your fabric pots, growing containers and raised beds. Rich and diverse with a perfect blend of compost, aeration and organic nutrient sources, Eco-life can support hungry plants for their complete lifecycle. It can also be re-used and regenerated time and time again, making Eco-Life a truly sustainable solution for ecologically-minded organic cultivation.
Growing plants is surprisingly easy when you work with nature. And you can leave those expensive bottles of nutrients and boosters on the gardening shop shelf because Eco-Life already contains everything your plants will need from seedling or cutting, right through to harvest. It’s fully loaded with the fundamental building blocks of nutrition required for full term growth, with minimal additional inputs required. Most importantly, it’s packed full of a diverse blend of the microbiology needed to break it down into plant-available forms. No measuring cups, no deficiencies, no lockouts, no burn... just perfect beautiful, healthy and vigorous plants.
All you need to do is keep your plants moist, and use enough soil for the target size of the plant. Plant something. Water it. Watch it grow. It really is that simple.
This latest version of Eco-Life is produced indoors for full control of the potting soil preparation process. We now use pumice instead of perlite, high quality, washed coco fibre, Irish peat and premium vermicompost to give growers an even higher quality organic soil.
Eco-Life contains; Coco Coir, Irish Peat, Pumice, Vermicompost (Worm Castings), Mealworm Frass (Charge), Neem Cake, Seaweed meal, Insect meal, Rock Phosphate, Volcanic Rockdust, Gypsum, Calcium and Magnesium Limestone & Humic and Fulvic Acids. Loaded with organic nutrition, these natural inputs supercharge the potting soil.
We sometimes call this “green gold” because of all the treasures it brings to the soil! Ecothrives seaweed meal is exclusively sourced from the highly-prized species Ascophyllum nodosum and contains an impressive spectrum of minerals—over 60 trace elements! This incredible, natural soil amendment gives your plants a luxurious nutritional diet complemented with valuable natural plant growth hormones including cytokinins to help drive cell division and speed up growth, auxins and gibberellins for assisting the mobility of essential nutrients, and indoles for turbocharged root development.
Ecothrives ecologically-sourced crustacean meal replacement! Insect meal is very similar to crustacean meal in its nutrient profile, but has very low sodium, making it an ideal living soil amendment. Rich in amino acids, nitrogen and phosphorus, this is a great source of nutrition for the plants, and for the soil biology. Most importantly, Insect meal is much more sustainable than crustacean meal, the insects are black soldier fly larvae and are grown indoors on controlled food waste streams. The time has come to stop depleting our oceans, and small moves like this can make a difference.
Neem is a potent source of soil fertility largely thanks to being a nutrient accumulator itself. Neem has deep reaching roots which pull up nutrition from deep down below the soil surface where other plants can’t reach. Neem is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as well as calcium and magnesium. As an additional key benefit, neem also helps to ward off soil pests and pathogens.
Ecothrives flagship product, Charge, is well-known for its nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium boosting power, as well as being an excellent food source for beneficial microbes. This natural and ecological product helps to boost key primary nutrients in your soil mix. As a secondary benefit, mealworm frass also contains tiny fragments of mealworm skins and other body parts providing a great source of chitin to stimulate plant immune response and elevate defences.
The “magic ingredient” for essential trace elements and silica—essential for optimal plant health and vigour but often lacking from lesser soil mixes. Trace minerals form the building blocks of enzymes, proteins and many other metabolites while silica helps plants to grow big and strong with thick stems and branches to support heavy yields.
This is the crucial ingredient that makes everything else work! We like to think of Ecothrives premium quality vermicompost as the engine room of the soil mix. It introduces the bacteria and fungi required to break down the other inputs and make nutrients available to the plants. We use worm castings from an indoor worm farm where the worms are allowed to feed naturally on a luxurious (for worms!) diet of well aged aerobic thermophilic compost. The quality of the resulting worm castings is unbeatable. Adding a plethora of beneficial microbes, as well as extra nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and micronutrients, these incredibly high quality worm castings are the heartbeat of our living soils.
Gypsum is a great source of calcium, one of the most important nutrients for healthy plants in all growing situations! Calcium is needed for healthly leaf, fruit and flower development. The other beneficial side to gypsum is the sulphur which improves aroma, flavour development and overall health in fast-growing plants.
Humus is the final product of decomposition and is rich in humic and fulvic acids. Life-Cycle contains both humic and fulvic acids derived from naturally mined deposits of ancient vegetation. These key fractions are great at chelating nutrients making them easy for plants to uptake, as well as stimulating microbial activity and improving plant health and root growth.
As part of Ecothrives concerted effort to minimise plastic waste, Eco-Life is now packaged in a cardboard box with a thin LDPE plastic liner that is much easier to recycle.
To get the full benefits of using Eco-Life, we recommend using approximately 180-250L per 1.2m2.
We highly recommend using 45L per pot, with 4 pots per 1.2m2.
Other pot sizes will also work, as long as you get the soil volume to area on point. For example; 2 x 90L pots, 6 x 30L pots, or one big 200L bed would all be suitable.
