Elixir Gardens | Volcanic Rock Dust | Organic Fertiliser/Re-Mineraliser & Compost Activator | 500g-25kg | Soil Carbon Capture | 2kg | Treats 4sqm

When I told my wife I was spending some of our hard-earned cash on rock dust she suggested I nip round the building site and get some brick dust!Very amusing. But this is not like dust at all. It is a dark-grey colour (very volcanic) with a lovely thick friable texture. It is like dry soil. It feels wonderful. Mix this 50:50 with compost and you'd have a great planting medium - I've done that for some seeds.Spreading the volcanic rock dust is a bit of a challenge because it is too thick and clumpy for a fertiliser spreader (for the lawn). A garden sieve might be the best bet for an even spread.As an experiment I have put this on part on our lawn (which sits on thick clay), in some of our pots, and on a couple of flower beds. We'll see how it performs. I would like to spread a layer of this all over the sticky clay on our garden but I will probably have to win the lottery for that.It looks and feels wonderful and I am sure it will help improve the texture of heavy soil as well as add vital elements. It seems pretty good value compared to many soil improvers and is definitely worth a try if you love your garden.I'll need to wait to see the results in our garden, but I am hopeful it will do good things.

I bought in Dec 2022, I think I applied it next March or so, I used only the half of the suggested amount, we had a crazy amount of fruits on the trees and bushes and big ones. We did another thing, called electro gardening, bamboo rods wrapped around with copper wires. This year the rods were still there, but I didn't use the remaining rock dust, very poor amount of fruits, trees dropped everything or almost. Weather was not so different, trees have crazy amount of leaves and new branches but no fruits or hardly any. I also tried this stuff on my newly little flamboyant tree / sprout, gorws like crazy and beautiful. Tried it on brazilian guyava, it has no flowers, now it is full with flowers. All in one, I think this stuff works but need to be re-implemented every year, I shall give it a second try next spring and plan to reorder.

This is a new adventure for my allotment and it really makes a lot of sense. If you look at the areas surrounding volcanic activity and it’s deposits. Anyway along with my staple seaweed granules decided to add both components, on a whim, to the soil. The results will hopefully show this year. Already the leeks have done very well, compared to the other plots, and as a novice with little knowledge of gardening very chuffed with the results. This weekend went to our local Potato 🥔 Fair in Whitchurch near Winchester, where they have a guest speaker from the agricultural college Sparsholt and did pose the question as to the benefits of using Volcanic rock ash and according to him due to the boran element this was a great idea but to add only once every ten years. That with gardening by the Luna calendar, and the use of hydrogen peroxide, for pests, it appears that I have heaps of investigative work to do.

I bought this because I took over an allotment plot this year which had been untended for a few years, and had very dry sandy soil which the neighbouring plotholders say is poor and lacking in nutrients. I don't like using animal products so I've been looking for vegan ways to improve the soil. I've mixed coir compost into the soil, and whenever I plant something I sprinkle some vegan fertiliser pellets and a small handful of this rock dust in the soil around the plant. It is only my first year on the allotment so I think it will take some time to build up a good nutrient-rich soil, and really notice the difference but so far using this I have had a good crop of leafy veg that has grown much longer than expected (Spinach, lettuce, winter purslane, beets, and chard that I planted in August 2015 are still growing strong in February 2016, having survived the whole winter without any frost protection). My mum who is a qualified horticulturist also uses this in her veg garden and she says she really noticed a difference when she first started using it - her crops were much bigger and healthier. Her friend who grows flowers has also said he has had the best crops ever since using this. I am new to gardening so don't have much to compare it to, but I like the fact that I can use something that is not animal based to add nutrients to the soil.

Only just applied to exhausted plant border, but looks good, was quickly delivered and a great price.

The product was much grittier and larger in particulaye size than I was expecting. I have scattered some onto my growing areas, and now await to see results.

Too soon to say how effective, but worth a try.

I buy this crush rock to add to my potting compost.I sow seeds in the compost when they are ready for planting they go into my allotment.My hope is that in time it will help to improve the soil quality and the quality of my crops.