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How to Use Black Wonder 5000 Soil Amendment

Building healthy topsoil has never been so easy!

Learn how to use our products to grow bigger, better, and healthier plants every year!

Black Wonder 5000 Dry Soil Builder in Multiple Sizes

Black Wonder 5000 Soil Enhancer/Activator

Our Soil Enhancer/Activator is perfect for  ANY soil. Use this product anywhere that you want to build healthy topsoil for your plants. Our Soil Enhancer/Activator can be mixed in to any composted organics or manure that you have at your disposal to build strong, healthy topsoil. 

  1. Apply 1 gallon of our Soil Enhancer/Activator per acre; along with composted organics or manures. Fertilizer and lime per soil test. Add sand, perlite, vermiculite or expanded slate if heavy clay. 
  2. Till all this into the top 6-8″.
  3. Seed, sod or sprig.
  4. Water well. 

Mix 1 quart or more into 1 cubic yard of topdressing or normal potting mix.

  1. Do what you have always done. Except: Delete 30% of your fertilizer.
  2.  Add 1 gallon of our Soil Enhancer/Activator to seed 1-2 acres.
  3. For even better results add in any composted organic matter or manures. 
  1. Apply 1 gallon of our Soil Enhancer/Activator per acre; along with composted organics or manures. Fertilizer and lime per soil test. Add sand, perlite, vermiculite or expanded slate if heavy clay. 
  2. For plants that are already established, sprinkle Soil Enhancer/Activator lightly around the base. It will work itself into the soil. 
Natural Organic Compost Soil Builder from Black Wonder 5000

Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder

Our Soil Builder is the perfect solution to building strong, healthy topsoil. This product is a mixture of our Soil Enhancer/Activator and organic manure. Our Soil Builder does in 1 year what Mother Nature does in 5000! Learn more below about how to use this product. 

  1. Apply all of Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder, fertilizer, and lime
  2. Add sand if mostly clay
  3. Mix into top 6” of soil
  4. Level soil and rake
  5. Spread seed over the area
  6. Cover all seeded areas with straw and mat
  7. Water well and keep moist
  1. Apply all of Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder, fertilizer, and lime
  2. Add sand if mostly clay
  3. Mix into top 6” of soil
  4. Level soil and rake
  5. Sprig and crimp into the prepared bed
  6. Water daily until new shoots appear, then continue weekly

Perfect for divot repair!

  1. Mix sand, Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder, fertilizer, lime and seed
  2. Spread and level with float
  3. Water and keep moist
  1. Place seed, fertilizer, hydro mulch, and 24 bags of Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder per 1000 gallons water
  2. Shoot until the soil is black and 1/2” thick
  3. Cover seeded areas with straw or erosion mat
  4. Water and keep moist
  1. Add all Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder and fertilizer
  2. Mix 6” deep
  3. Plant
  4. Water well
  1. For trees apply 1 bag, for shrubs ½ bag of Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder on planting spot
  2. Dig hole, mixing Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder into soil and back-fill as you plant
  3. Water well
  4. Mulch
  1. Apply all of Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder, fertilizer, and lime
  2. Add sand if mostly clay
  3. Mix into top 6” of soil
  4. Level soil and rake
  5. Plant
  6. Water well

Note: Tomatoes need extra calcium so mix gypsum, calcium lime, broken sheetrock, or other calcium source into soil

  1. Mix 3 bags of Black Wonder 5000 Soil Builder with 1 cubic yard of your regular potting mix.
  2. Option (2) Mix one 5 gallon bucket of our Soil Enhancer/Activator with 25 cubic yard of your present potting mix
  3. Option (3) Pot your plant like you always have using what you always use and sprinkle 1/2 ounce of our Soil Enhancer/Activator on a 3 gallon pot along with your normal fertilizer but use 30% less fertilizer. 
  4. Watch your plants take off and use less irrigation.