A question from a fellow Grower of Wheatgrass

"I'm a small scale market farmer. I drink, grow and sell wheatgrass
juice and grass locally. I recently went through the USDA Organic certification process and during that process I had to change from using Organic Gardener potting soil to Black Gold potting soil and now my wheatgrass is bitter. I grow in a small hoop house using natural light, and have only used our sweet well water to irrigate, (no other fertilizers).


Do you have any suggestions as to what my problem might be?"



Well, it sounds like the bitterness may be coming from the new soil, since that is the only thing you recently changed. I would try a different kind of soil. You don't have to use Black Gold potting soil to be in compliance with the certified Organic standards.

For more soil info, check out a section found at our website.