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Why Your Plants Aren’t Thriving—Even 
When You’re Doing Everything Right

You water. You fertilize. You care. But your plants still
don’t look their best. Here’s what you might be missing...

By Lauren Cain

Last updated: January 2025 | 8,152views

You’re Not Alone in Feeling Frustrated

You’ve done everything by the book. Your plants get plenty of sunlight. You water them regularly. You’ve tested different fertilizers.

 

And yet, your plants still aren’t thriving.

 

Maybe your flowers lack the vibrant colors you’ve pictured. Maybe your vegetables are growing slowly or staying small. Or maybe your plants seem fine, but they’re just not as healthy as you hoped.

 

It’s frustrating, especially when you’ve already put in so much work. But the truth is, this is a common problem for many gardeners.

Why Your Plants Aren’t Growing Like They Should

When plants don’t thrive, most people assume they need to water more or try a different fertilizer. But what if the problem lies deeper?

 

The truth is, even the most cared-for plants can struggle if the soil isn’t healthy.

 

Over time, soil loses its natural nutrients and beneficial microorganisms. These microorganisms are essential for plant growth. They break down organic matter, making nutrients available for plants to absorb. 

 

Without them, your soil becomes lifeless, and your plants suffer.

 

Even if you water and fertilize, plants can’t grow to their full potential in depleted soil.

The Warning Signs of Lifeless Soil

Your soil might look fine, but there are often subtle signs that something’s wrong below the surface.

 

Here’s what to watch for:

  • Yellowing Leaves: If your plants’ leaves are pale or turning yellow, they may not be getting enough nutrients.
  • Slow Growth: Plants that grow more slowly than expected often lack access to key nutrients.
  • Cracked, Dry Soil: Healthy soil should retain water. Dry, hard soil can indicate poor structure or lifeless conditions.

If you’re seeing any of these signs, the problem might not be your plants—it could be your soil.

Why Fertilizers Alone Can’t Fix the Problem

Many gardeners turn to fertilizers when plants show signs of struggle. And for a while, they might seem to help. But most fertilizers only offer a temporary solution.

 

Here’s why:

  • Fertilizers Feed Plants, Not Soil: Synthetic fertilizers deliver quick nutrients to your plants but ignore the long-term health of your soil.
  • They Don’t Rebuild Microorganisms: Without microorganisms, your soil can’t process nutrients effectively, no matter how much fertilizer you add.
  • They Can Do More Harm Than Good: Over time, synthetic fertilizers can strip your soil of life, making it even harder for plants to thrive.

The result? A cycle of dependency where plants rely on constant feeding, while the soil continues to degrade.

There are two THREE Significant
Issues With Most Plant Fertilizers...

01. They have no microbes

Most fertilizers don’t have any microbes, and these microbes are the key to unlocking dormant plant-growth hormones within the soil.

02. They are full of toxins

Many fertilizers are filled with artificial and toxic ingredients, often sourced from unsustainable methods. Due to misleading labels, even some products marketed as “organic” might contain substances that can harm your plants.

03. They only focus on NPK

A lot of fertilizers only focus on NPK which is not enough to create healthy plants and manufacturing is also harmful to the environment. (We'll talk more about this later.)

The Role of Healthy Soil in Plant Growth

Healthy soil is more than just dirt. It’s a living ecosystem that provides everything plants need to thrive.

  • It’s Packed with Microorganisms: These tiny, invisible helpers break down organic matter into nutrients that plants can absorb.
  • It Holds Water and Nutrients: Healthy soil has the right structure to retain moisture and deliver nutrients where plants need them.
  • It Supports Strong Roots: Healthy soil protects roots and allows them to grow deep and strong.

When your soil is alive and thriving, your plants grow faster, stronger, and healthier.

What Happens When Soil Loses Its Life?

Lifeless soil creates a hidden struggle for your plants, even if they look fine on the surface.

 

Here’s what happens:

  • Nutrient Deficiency: Without microorganisms, plants can’t absorb the nutrients they need to grow.
  • Weak Roots: Poor soil structure makes it harder for roots to grow deep and strong.
  • Slow, Stunted Growth: Plants in lifeless soil take longer to mature and often stay small.

Even with plenty of water and fertilizer, plants can’t overcome the challenges of lifeless soil.

How to Bring Your Soil Back to Life

The good news? 

 

Lifeless soil doesn’t have to be permanent. With the right approach, you can restore your soil and create the perfect environment for plant growth.

  • Reintroduce Microorganisms: Adding beneficial microorganisms to your soil jumpstarts the natural processes that support plants.
  • Feed Your Soil, Not Just Your Plants: Focus on rebuilding the ecosystem below the surface, so your soil can sustain growth long-term.
  • Choose Natural Solutions: Avoid synthetic fertilizers that strip your soil of life and look for options that work with nature, not against it.

By rebuilding your soil, you’ll see the difference in your plants—healthier leaves, stronger roots, and faster growth.

So, what’s the solution for gardeners seeking genuine, 
effective, and sustainable plant nourishment?

Thousands of Gardeners All Say...
Elm Dirt’s Plant Juice is the Answer.

Plant Juice is the simple, natural way to bring your soil back to life. Unlike synthetic fertilizers, Plant Juice works below the surface to rebuild your soil’s natural ecosystem.

Here’s how it works:

It’s pure, potent, 100% organic, and packed with over 250 beneficial microorganisms, ensuring your plants get the best care they deserve!
  • Restores Microorganisms: Plant Juice adds the living organisms your soil needs to support plant growth.
     
  • Feeds Plants Naturally: With over 50 essential nutrients, your plants get everything they need to thrive.
     
  • Safe and Organic: 100% natural, with no harmful chemicals—safe for families, pets, and pollinators.

Plant Juice isn’t just another fertilizer. 

 

It’s a complete, all-natural, organic solution that works with nature—not against it.

 

Here’s why gardeners are making the switch:

  • Rebuilds Your Soil: Plant Juice restores the living ecosystem in your soil, creating the perfect environment for plant growth.
     
  • Feeds Your Plants: Packed with over 50 nutrients, it gives your plants everything they need to thrive.
     
  • Safe for Families, Pets, and Pollinators: No harmful chemicals. Just a natural, sustainable formula you can trust.
     
  • Eco-Friendly Gardening: Helps restore soil health while supporting plant growth.
     
  • Easy to Use: No complicated instructions or special tools needed—just mix, apply, and watch your plants transform.
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Here are theTop 7 Reasons...

Why Elm Dirt is Completely Different and Actually Helps Create Healthier and More Robust Plants...

Premium Blend of
Nutrient-Rich Ingredients

Our organic fertilizers guarantee that you’re using a product derived from 100% organic sources and ingredients that are harvested responsibly without any exposure to synthetic chemicals or pesticides. 

 

Our 100% organic fertilizer is crafted with the utmost care, sourcing premium organic material – ensuring you provide your plants with the healthiest and most sustainable organic fertilizer available.

Pet, Pollinator, People,
and Planet Friendly

Elm Dirt is focused on creating products that are safe for everyone in the family and garden! We use organic all natural ingredients that included zero harsh chemicals.

 

Your little ones can help water the garden or repot plants around the home without worrying about harsh chemical getting into their mouth.

 

Let pets run in the yard without worrying about chemical soaking into their paws or eating soil. Create a pollinator friendly garden by working with the pollinators. Microbes help lock in nutrients to prevent run-off.

All Elm Dirt Products are 
Formulated to be Easy to Use

Elm Dirt products are easy to use! Our liquid fertilizers are concentrated using as little as 2 ounces per gallon of water. Using Plant Juice or Bloom Juice any time you water your plants. No need to fertilize separately from your regular watering schedule.

 

Most traditional fertilizers have a harsh chemical smell and tend to stain your hands. Elm Dirt product included ZERO harsh chemicals using organic ingredients creating a earthy smell.

4 Pillars of Plant Health
in Every Bottle

To be plant health focused there needs to be an emphasis on the four pillars of plant health: Macronutrients, Micronutrients, Microbes and Non-plant food ingredients.

 

Each play an essential role in the growth of a plant!

 

1. Macronutrients are essential to any plants growth and development.
2. Micronutrients help give other essential nutrients to the plant which help improve the flavor and aroma of crop.
3. Microbes help increase drought tolerance, help your plant be more resistant to certain pest and diseases. Also help build a beneficial fungal network to unlock your soils potential and lock in nutrients.
4. Non-plant food ingredients assist microbes in nutrient delivery (Micro and Macro), help build up plant strength and condition the soil.

Up to 20-30x the Normal
Nutrient Intake

Microbes store micronutrients and macronutrients from raw organic ingredients and deliver them to the plants in a form they can uptake.

 

This helps fix nutrients in the soil and in the air like Nitrogen.

 

Microbes store macronutrient and micronutrients till plants need those nutrients. They also help create a fungal network in the soil to help create a secondary root system.

 

This is called the mycorrhizae. It allows up to 20-30x the nutrient uptake compared to the normal plant’s root system.

 

Plus, it can hold significantly more water, nutrients, and alert the plants of pests or pathogens when the plants need it creating much more drought resistant and hardy plants.

It Takes More than Just NPK

for Plants to Thrive

Believe it or not… Plants need more than just Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium (NPK) to thrive. 

 

Synthetic fertilizers typically only provide the bare minimum of nutrients. Plants need micronutrients and microbes to really thrive.

 

Micronutrients like Calcium, Iron and Manganese are important micronutrients for plants. 

 

Microbes help deliver and store nutrients.

Industry Leading
180-Day Money Back
Guarantee

We are the only organic fertilizer to offer a full 180-day money back guarantee. That’s right, unlike other companies that give you only 30 or 60 day limited guarantees, you have a full 180 days to try and use our products and, if you aren’t completely thrilled, by your own standards, we’ll refund every penny of your purchse price back to you.

 

We take all the risk and you reap the rewards (and results).

OK, here are a few more reasons…

  • 8) Zero harsh chemicals added. Never burn your plants or worry about runoff.

     
  • 9) The results of synthetics with ORGANIC. Organic fertilizer creates robust healthy growth while locking in nutrients and adding nutrients to help create a living soil.

     
  • 10) Works with other fertilizers. Microbes help lock in nutrients from other fertilizers, including synthetic fertilizers. Ensuring the plant can use those nutrients by locking it into the soil.

     
  • 11) All-in-one solution. Save money! Stop using multiple products and mixing solutions. Our organic fertilizer contains macronutrients, micronutrients and microbes. Microbes inoculant soil and turf pores increasing fungi resistance, plus non-food ingredients like gypsum help condition the soil.

     
  • 12) Probiotics and Whole Food. Let our microbes be your personal plant caretakers for you. Microbes deliver a complete balanced plant diet. This gives you more time to relax and enjoy your plants without having to stress.

     
  • 13) Your plants deserve better! It’s time for a wholistic and natural approach to fertilizer. Our organic, sustainable and regenerative ingredients have your plants’ and our planet best interest in mind.

Now, From Our Garden to Yours...

INTRODUCING:

Elm Dirt Plant Juice

Join Master Gardeners and over 75,000 Happy Customers Creating Thriving Plants Without Toxic and Harsh Chemical Fertilizers!

Plant Juice is hand brewed for each order using fresh chemical-free worm castings and organic plant vitamins. Give your plants exactly what nature intended to make them grow stronger and healthier.

 

Plant Juice fills ordinary plants with an endless amount of ‘natural’ energy so they grow more flowers, sprout new branches, shade your home, and choke out weeds.
 

And it’s perfect for indoor plants because it’s never stinky (unlike fish-based fertilizers) because it’s engineered to reduce bad organisms and keep healthy bacteria alive.

Elm Dirt Plant Juice IS the Answer!

It’s pure, potent, 100% organic, and packed with over 250 beneficial micro-organisms, ensuring your plants get the best care they deserve!

  • Organic plant growth promoting formula
  • People, pet, pollinator, and planet friendly
  • Over 250 beneficial microbes
  • Over 50 micro and macro nutrients
  • Attract honey bees and pollinators
  • 100% organic
  • Zero harsh chemicals
  • Responsibly sourced and harvested
  • Fast delivery to your door
  • Full 180-day money back guarantee

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Nourish Your Plants AND Nourish the Earth

When you use Elm Dirt's Plant Juice, you're doing more than just providing your plants with a pure, potent fertilizer and plant food.

 

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Want to Try It?

We have a 180-Day 100% money-back guarantee so if you aren't thrilled with your order just let us know and we'll refund you with no questions asked. We are proud to have incredibly loyal customers who love our products and we're confident you will too. No matter what you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee if you aren't completely satisfied with any of our products.

Plant Lovers LOVE Plant Juice!

The best things we can say, our customers say it better with their results...

Shot up a foot and half in just a few weeks

"Tomatoes, shot up a foot and half in just a few weeks using the plant juice! Even the slow growing plants like the macadamia nut tree doubled its leaves since using the plant juice! Number of bugs is next to zero compared with last year using chemical fertilizer. I did get more bumblebees than last year as well. Everything is really beautiful and healthy. Both bananas are really healthy grown a foot taller."

 

- Brian B., verified purchase

I’ve turned a lot of my friends onto Plant Juice

"All my plants are doing great. All 100+ I’ve turned a lot of my friends onto plant juice and Bloom. Once I gave them a bottle they're hooked!"

 

- George L., verified purchase

The cleanest, healthiest nourishment

"I give all my indoor plants (over 175 plants) & outdoor gardens Elm Dirt Plant Juice. My exotic, succulents & cactuses receive a weekly watering with the juice. Every plant is pushing new growth & is healthy thriving. This Cyclamen has been receiving weekly (as directed) waterings. She has flowered recently & I am delighted how healthy she has progressed. I advise all my friends & plant community by this weekly routine. I’ve also had a recently repotted well established fairy castle cactus that I nurtured with plant juice watering & she is revived, healthy & going strong. Thank you Elm Dirt for your continued commitment of sharing your knowledge & magic with us consumers. I will continue to give my plants the opportunity to thrive to the best of their potential by giving them the cleanest, healthiest nourishment from Elm Dirt Plant Juice."

 

- Lisa C., verified purchase

This product saved my plants

"This product saved my plants. The stores no longer carry compost. It just disappeared online too. I'm making my own but that takes time. There is not enough nutrition in the dirt you purchase for a raised bed garden. I tried this and every plant near death came back to life and had grown over night. I fertilize once every two weeks. I've transferred to Bloom now for the one's flowering. I also use this on my flowers and just to make a point. I purposely put them in the sandy bad dirt and used this to see. They are not only growing but are blooming."

 

- Charlene R., verified purchase

Love this product

"I seen your video online. I purchased two boxes, each box containing three plant juice and three bloom juice. I gave a box to my sister who has over 50 house plants. We both have used it for a month and are amazed by the results. My husband gave my hydrangea a real haircut in the fall (it’s only a year old) and I thought it was dead for sure. The photo proves me wrong. It actually has a flower bud on it already. Love this product."

 

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All are seeing their plants becoming healthier

"My greenhouse plants started blooming a week after using “the juice”😍 After an entire year my Meyer Lemon is loaded with blooms. I have 4 friends now using the juice and all are seeing their plants becoming healthier.😍"

 

- Tracie D., verified purchase

Frequent Questions

What makes Plant Juice different?

Plant Juice plant food is hand brewed for each order using fresh chemical-free worm castings and organic plant vitamins, so you’re giving your plants exactly what nature intended to make them grow stronger and healthier.


Plant Juice fills ordinary plants with an endless amount of ‘natural’ energy so they want to grow more flowers and bloom, sprout new branches, shade your home, and choke out weeds.


Plant Juice is perfect for indoor plants because it’s never stinky (unlike fish-based fertilizers) because it’s engineered to reduce bad organisms and keep healthy bacteria alive.

How often do I need to use Plant Juice on my plants?

We recommend adding a dose of Plant Juice every time you water your plants.

Is Plant Juice safe?

We have two dogs and two young children. And one of our dogs will eat the leaves off literally every indoor plant in our house. But with Plant Juice (and all Elm Dirt products) we’ve never had to worry about him getting sick.

 

I’ve also had the kids knock over my plants which is a nightmare because those little fertilizer pellets are impossible to clean up.

 

Here are the ingredients:

How long does an open container last?

It really depends on how big your garden is. But a little goes a long way. And one small 16-ounce jar can give you up to 32 gallons of probiotic rich, plant wellness.

Will it go bad after the seal is broken?

Unlike other products, our formulas are engineered to be stable for our microbes even after the seal is broken. Plant Juice has a shelf life up to 1 year from when the seal is broken.

Does it work on any plant, shrub, flower, tree or type of grass?

Absolutely. It works on anything that lives in the ground.

Can it be used in hydroponics?

Yes, Plant Juice is very effective in hydroponics. But please keep in mind that you’ll have to rinse and change out your water more often anytime you add microbes to a hydroponic solution.

How long does it take to start working?

Most people start noticing a visible difference within 5-7 days. And we’ve found that Plant Boost helps certain types of seeds start sprouting in just days, instead of taking up to 10 days or more.

Can it be used as a foliar spray? Or in a foliar sprayer?

Yes, Plant Juice works well in hand-held pump sprayers and soil drenching is the best way to concentrate microbes and enzymes in the root zone. While spraying leaves and foliage is perfect for repelling insects and adding extra nutrients in all the right spots.

Do I still need Plant Juice if I use worm castings in my soil?

Yes. Worm castings are fantastic for making soil softer and for laying an optimal microbial foundation. But with added nutrients inside Plant Juice, alfalfa, kelp, lactobacillus, and calcium extract, you’re getting a full-spectrum program for creating ‘living soil’.

What if I accidentally add too much to one of my plants?

Since this is organic and 100% all-natural, you have nothing to worry about because an extra dose won’t harm your plants. However, we still don’t recommend using more than suggested. In this case, more doesn’t equal better.

What if it doesn't work for me?

No problem. You have 6 FULL months to decide if Plant Juice is for you. So if at any time during those 180 days, if you’re not completely satisfied with the results of Plant Juice, we’ll happily refund your entire purchase.

What if I have a question not answered here?

Contact us at support@elmdirt.com if you have additional questions or need help before or after you buy.
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