Black Gold® Receives Recognition from Home Gardeners
Black Gold® All Purpose w/Multicote, Black Gold® Natural & Organic and Black Gold® Waterhold Cocoblend have just received the National Home Garden Club Seal of approval. Last summer and fall several hundred members of the National Home Garden club in the western United States tested the three potting soils. The producttesters were asked to use the sample in their home garden and determine if it would be a product they would recommend. We are pleased to let you know that each of the three products received a customer satisfaction score of 98 to 100 percent.

Black Gold® Recommended by Fine Gardening Magazine
In the January/ February 2009 edition of Fine Gardening Magazine, Black Gold® was recommended by the article’s author as “great container soil”. Black Gold® was his choice because we offer a “high-quality organic alternative to larger, mass-produced products”. We appreciate those kind words, and we hope that all of our customers feel the same.

Bill Bird, who writes the Sacramento Vegetable Gardening blog, raved recently about Black Gold seed starting mix. His tomato seeds sprouted in six days!
http://sacramentogardening.blogspot.com/2010/02/3-2-1-germination-germination-in-north.html

I've attached the first few photos we've gotten of Home Gardens Program participants' container gardens.  All these beautiful veggies are being grown in Black Gold potting soil!
 
I'll pass on more photos as the season continues.  Thank you and everyone else at Sun Gro so much for all your support in helping low-income Portlanders grow their own food!
 
Best,
Nat Lichten
Home Garden Coordinator
NWSA AmeriCorps

I worked at a garden center in Gresham, Oregon and that is where I tried the Black Gold Soil Conditioner. I live in an area near Mt Hood that has a lot of sand and fir needles in my soil, so I thought I would try this product since I sold the product at the garden center, and I felt I needed to know how it worked. I started using it in my flower pots. I planted my flowers in some pots, and tomatoes in other pots using soil conditioner. It worked so well that I decided to use it in all my flower beds. I also added it to the soil where I planted my evergreens, rhododendrons, and other plants. They grew so well, and I did not lose any of my plants. I also had some of the nicest tomatoes. This fall I put a layer on all my flower beds.

I feel this is the best product I have ever used. I am going to continue to add this to my flower beds each years, as my plants have done so well since I have been using Black Gold Soil Conditioner.

Sandy, Oregon

Black Gold® All Purpose Soil is a “very excellent” soil. In the past I used another soil & it killed my pansies so I tried the Black Gold® All Purpose & within 2 weeks they were bigger than the ones in the other soil that had been in it for over 2 months. Thank you and don’t ever change the formula because it works great!”

Allan, Portland, OR

Check out the pumpkin I grew this year in a 400 square foot patch!  It was the 4th heaviest in Utah this year at 855 pounds.  This is my 5th year of growing and my previous best was 404 pounds in 2007.

One of the only things I did differently than previous years is add 160 quarts (10 bags) of Black Gold Earthworm Castings into the top 6 inches of soil.  Please don’t tell anybody!  Thank you! 

Sincerely,

Russ, Utah