Growers Gold Outdoor Growing Mix

Growers Gold Outdoor Growing Mix

If you dream of picture perfect plants like those at the garden center, consider this.  When a grower has 50,000 petunias on the line, she can't afford to take risks.  She has to get it right the first time or the losses can be staggering.  She will demand a product like Grower's Gold, a first class potting soil with a perfect blend of organic matter, minerals and plant foods.  Together in the just right proportions, this commercial nursery soil creates an optimal environment for explosive growth. This year, consider Grower's Gold when you prepare your next gardening project.  Planning to use potted color for a summer garden party?  Looking for bags and bags to fill newly made raised beds.  It's a perfect fit to replace worn out soil in last year's Grow Box.  Even if you're just growing a few potted ...

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Play Our Social Game Barn Buddy!

Play Our Social Game Barn Buddy!

Now you can have the fun of gardening without stepping outside! With this interactive game, you can plant, care for, and harvest vegetables while earning points and adding your neighbors. Using your Facebook account to login and play, Barn Buddy is a game that you won't want to put down! Play Barn Buddy Now!

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Indoor Potting Soil Growing Mix Available Home Depot Ace

Indoor Potting Soil Growing Mix Available Home Depot Ace

The blossoming of indoor gardens is far more than a new way to grow houseplants and exotics; it's a revolution in growing food too. Whether you're just into windowsill herbs or a whole vegetable plot under lights, it's all rooted in one important component: soil. In the past the same potting soils were used indoors and out. These soil mixes were highly variable in quality, and made out of various forest by products rather than scientifically formulated to give plants what they need to thrive.  When poorly cared for, the soils became compacted, resulting in over-saturation.  If allowed to dry out they became resistant to reabsorbing water. The result was either root death due to drowning or drought. Things are different in the commercial nursery world.  Enormous greenhouse operations have long used Sun Gro’s professional growing mixes for ideal drainage, easy wetting, ...

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GET YOUR GROWERS GOLD T SHIRT NOW!

GET YOUR GROWERS GOLD T SHIRT NOW!

Show your support for Grower's Gold with a stylish tie-dye t-shirt! Available in both men's and women's flattering cuts.

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Potted Herbs In Grower’s Gold for Winter Fresh Seasoning

balcony with potted herbs

Most of our culinary herbs come from the warm, dry Mediterranean, and that’s what makes them so darned hard to grow in other climates. Many of them will not abide overly wet, cold soil. This challenged the ancient Romans who were huge herb lovers but found themselves in northern outposts of soggy Britain and Germany.

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Grower’s Gold with CRF and Supplemental Fertilization

Grower’s Gold Outdoor Mix is a high performance potting soil ideal for both food gardens and seasonal color pots.  This product was developed for with the nursery industry, and now it’s available to consumers with all the benefits requested by professional growers.

Grower’s Gold contains controlled release fertilizer, (CRF), in addition to the natural fertility provided by its organic components.  Together this ensures a baseline of solid nutrition for virtually any crop.  CRF is specially created with an outer covering to contain the concentrated fertilizer.  As water is applied the nutrients are drawn out through osmosis to accurately control the amount released.  The reliability and performance of this system has become the widely accepted standard of the nursery industry.  It also reduces the amount of fertilizer you apply, sparing the environment from unused nutrients in runoff. Read More »

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Don’t Risk Your Crop: Choose Growers Gold

Will the veggies in your raised beds just get by this year, or will they flourish and produce a bountiful crop?  The answer is simple: join the pros and choose Growers Gold outdoor growing mix for guaranteed success.

Maybe you’ve noticed that everybody’s keen on showing how to make raised beds, but it’s hard to find good advice on filling them.  Soil is the most important part of your project because it is crucial to how well your plants grow.  Choose poor quality fill and the plants will show it from day one.   Grower’s Gold growing mix is different because it was formerly available only to the nursery industry, evolving over many years meet the demands of professional plant growers. Read More »

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Proof of Life: There May Be Mold in Our Soils

If you find white mold in a bag of our potting soil, don’t think it’s spoiled like moldy bread.  Consider this white webby material the ultimate proof of life. It is an undeniable sign that our potting soils are perfectly blended to create a bio-active root environment.  Even while that bag sat at the garden center, a great deal of activity was going on in our living soils, and the mold proves it.  This is a rare opportunity to actually see one of the invisible organisms that contribute so much to organic plant health.  Such tiny living things are literally a web of life key to all fertile soils. Read More »

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