Aquatic Soil

Our high-quality Aquatic Soil is specially formulated to give your pond plants the perfect growing environment. This heavy, low-nutrient blend provides stability for rooted aquatic species and supports a clear, balanced pond ecosystem. Whether you’re planting marginals, water-lilies or creating a wildlife-friendly water garden, this is the ideal soil for pond plants.

Why Choose Our Aquatic Soil? 

Designed for pond environments: Our aquatic soil is tailored for use in baskets and containers placed in garden ponds, bog gardens and water features.

The ideal soil for pond plants: Its denser structure anchors roots securely, ensuring plants stay in place even when fully submerged. 

Supports clearer water: With naturally low nutrient levels, this soil for ponds helps reduce algae and blanket weed, contributing to a cleaner, healthier pond. 

Wildlife-safe and pH balanced: Suitable for ponds containing fish, amphibians and visiting wildlife. Helps maintain stable water conditions for thriving aquatic life. 

Peat-free and sustainably produced: Made in Britain using environmentally responsible methods, just like the rest of the Earth Cycle range.   

Ideal for: 

• Planting water-lilies, irises, marginals and oxygenators 
• Wildlife ponds and fish ponds 
• Creating stable, healthy root environments in water features 
• Gardeners looking for a reliable, peat-free soil for ponds 

How to use Aquatic Soil

Choose the right container

• Aquatic baskets are the most common choice. They are open-mesh baskets (usually made of plastic or fabric) that allow water to circulate while holding the soil in place. This lets the plant roots grow through the mesh into the pond water, absorbing nutrients.
• It can be useful to add a lining especially for baskets with larger mesh. Hessian or a fine fabric liner can prevent the soil from washing out. Over time, the plant roots will establish and hold the soil together even if the liner degrades.
  
  Prepare the basket
• Place your chosen aquatic basket in a tray or on a surface that can catch any spilled soil.
• Fill the basket about two-thirds full with aquatic soil.
• Create a hole in the centre large enough to accommodate the plant's root ball.
• Place the plant's root ball into the hole in the aquatic soil. Ensure the crown (where the stems meet the roots) is at the soil surface, or just above for plants like water lilies.
• Fill the rest of the basket with aquatic soil, gently firming it down around the plant's roots. Leave about 2-4 cm of space from the top of the basket.
• Cover the top of the aquatic soil with a layer of washed gravel, grit, or small pebbles to keep the soil contained, especially when lowering the basket into the pond. It also prevents fish from digging up the soil and clouding the water.
  
  Water before submerging
• Before placing the basket in the pond, gently water the plant and soil thoroughly using a watering can or hose.
  This helps to saturate the soil and prevent it from floating or breaking apart when it enters the pond water.

Position in the pond

• Carefully lower the planted basket into its designated spot in the pond.
• Different plants have different depth requirements (pop marginals on shallow shelves, water lilies in deeper sections). Use bricks or risers if needed to achieve the correct depth.