Saturday, May 19th, 2012: Join Mike Darcy and KXL at Bimart in Sandy, Oregon! There will be Black Gold samples, $3 rebates, and other goodies. Stop by for all of your gardening needs and to chat with a northwest garden expert!
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Black Gold Natural & Organic Fertilizers
Black Gold fertilizers are the organic gardener’s best friend. Each one offers specific nutrients that build your soil so it can better feed your plants a naturally balanced diet. With our easy-to-pour boxes, fertilizing your organic garden is quick and easy.Read more
Black Gold® Garden Compost
One of the secret ingredients used by successful gardeners is Black Gold® Garden Compost. Black Gold’s ready-to-use Garden Compost is OMRI-listed. This means that our garden compost is so naturally rich and pure that it can be used to produce certified organic garden products. If you purchase compost that is not OMRI-listed, you may get a product that contains ingredients you may not want in your garden.Read more
Black Gold® All Purpose with Technicote®
With the advent of Black Gold® All Purpose with Technicote®, you are now able to enjoy the benefits of a premium quality potting soil with a fertilizer that will feed your plants for up to six months. Sun Gro sells this same fertilizer product to professional growers.Read more
Black Gold® Waterhold Cocoblend
Waterhold Cocoblend Potting Soil is the sustainable solution for container gardens in arid climates or wherever water is in short supply. Its unique moisture retention ability means you water less often, and conserve more of it throughout the season. Read more
Black Gold® Natural & Organic
Black Gold Natural & Organic potting soil is so versatile it works for everything from hanging baskets to raised vegetable beds. This is not just any soil, it's a precise blend of everything your plants need to look their best and produce abundantly. Read more
Organic Materials Review Institute
Listed by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) for use in production of organic food and fiber, the OMRI Logo assures our product’s compliance to OMRI’s comprehensive product review process. Sun Gro is committed to providing OMRI listed products that can be used as agricultural inputs in your efforts to become a certified grower. Check out www.omri.org for a complete list of OMRI listed professional and retail products available.
Nestled into opulent coastal southern California is a nursery where I go to find out what’s hot in the world of container gardening. Decades ago Rogers Gardens was founded on flower-filled hanging color baskets so fabulous they draw tour buses daily. I worked there in the early 80s and today I return to see how they display every hot trend in container gardening. Most of what I see can be recreated using Black Gold specialty potting soils to make your home garden just as exciting this year.
Whether you are planting summer vegetable seeds or seedlings (young transplants), this is probably the peak time of year for many summer vegetables and flowers. Here in the Pacific Northwest the soil temperature is getting warmer and there is still time to plant many familiar summer vegetables from seed. Or to get a head start, set out young transplants.
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We are excited to announce that Black Gold has partnered with four more gardening communicators this spring. Be sure to listen in to their radio shows for plenty of expert gardening tips and more information about Black Gold.
Mike Darcy (Portland, OR) of In the Garden (and a regular Black Gold contributor)
Ciscoe Morris (Seattle, WA) of Gardening with Ciscoe
Andre Viette (Virginia) of In the Garden with Andre Viette
Tony Works (Cincinnati, OH) of In and Around the House
Between them, these four master gardeners have decades of experience in educating others about the joys of gardening.
To stay up to date on all the latest Black Gold expert gardening advice, offers and events you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to our monthly newsletter.
“Whether it’s houseplants or containers outdoors, Black Gold has a potting soil formulated to provide the ideal growing environment for all your plant projects.”
~P. ALLEN SMITH
Visit P. Allen Smith’s Website // Black Gold natural and organic potting soils, amendments and fertilizers weren’t created overnight. The brand was brought to life by a group of dedicated gardeners who had a commitment to sustainability and organic gardening. Our mixes contain rich ingredients, blended to work in balance with nature. OMRI, the Organic Materials Review Institute, independently verifies truly organic products through rigorous testing and approves them for use by Certified Organic Growers. With OMRI listed Black Gold, you can unleash these riches in your home garden.
“Good Morning, Gardeners!” is the cheery Sunday morning greeting familiar to over half a million radio listeners in New England and more from the rest of the United States, from “Mr. Nice Guy”, Paul Parent. Among other horticultural endeavors, Paul Parent has hosted “Paul Parent Garden Club” every Sunday morning from 6-10am on his syndicated talk show on the Genesis Communication network for the last 27 years.
Paul’s expert gardening advice is now heard on stations all over the country with a half-million loyal listeners.
Tune into The Paul Parent Garden Club™ talk radio show and find out what you have been missing.
Lantana camara 'Piñata' is one of several heat and drought tolerant ornamentals for summer long color.
Water-needy container plants often require twice-daily watering in summer’s heat, so it saves time and water to plant tougher, more water-efficient ornamentals. My top five toughies for effortless color are lantana (Lantana camera), narrowleaf zinnia (Zinnia angustifolia), Dichondra Silver Falls™, moss rose (Portulaca), and cigar plant (Cuphea ignea). Once established, they shine in the heat and can manage with less water. Two more tips towards less container watering: Plant in larger containers that give roots more room to grow, and use a water-holding growing medium like Black Gold® Waterhold Cocoblend.
Peonies are a favorite spring flower and I have many in my garden. I have had quite a few people tell me they are a memory flower and reminds them of a parent or grandparent’s garden. For me they bring memories of my grandmother’s garden in Ohio. A particular early-blooming favorite is Paeonia mlokosewitschii which is the first to bloom in my garden. It is named after a Polish botanist and is a mouthful to pronounce and has the common name of ‘Molly the Witch’. With distinctive foliage and beautiful soft yellow flowers, this may be difficult to find but worth the search.
When choosing a pot size for your young transplant, it can be tempting to take a small plant and put it into a very large pot in order to encourage it to grow. However, because the potting medium surrounding a young transplant may hold more water than would be utilized by the plant, this quick fix could result in root rot.
Instead, repot your transplants into containers only one or two inches larger than their original pot size, allow enough time for the expanding roots to fill in, then you can bump your healthy plants up again.
The author’s daughter, Franziska, planting ever-bearing ‘Alexandria’ and ‘Temptation’ strawberries.
Strawberries have a simple beauty and appeal not lost on children. Whether grown in containers, mounds, or patches, they’re sure to please. For kids, ever-bearing varieties that produce intermittent berries all season are best. This spring, my oldest daughter and I created a strawberry mound with some spare bricks and a little ingenuity. We amended the mound with Black Gold Garden Compost Blend and fertilized our berries with Black Gold All-Purpose Fertilizer. Let the berries begin!
