Cert No 2863
Living Earth’s Black Gold is an aesthetic black mulch, made from high-quality recycled wood chip, coloured
with a natural black carbon dye. We only use untreated timber to ensure it’s free from harmful chemicals and
safe for your garden.
It delivers a clean, modern finish while helping your garden thrive, retaining moisture, suppressing weeds,
and improving soil structure and health. Ideal for commercial, residential landscapes and home gardens alike.
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This product contains no weeds. None whatsoever. Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
Restores soil nutrients, improving structure, boosting microbial life, and supporting stronger plant growth over time.
Formulated to ensure smooth, efficient application with minimal effort, delivering fast, consistent coverage.
We take great care to bring you premium product. Our products are created from recovered green waste and are compliant with the New Zealand Standard NZS 4454 for Composts, Soil Conditioners, and Mulches.
Click here for more information about NZS 4454.
Spread Black Gold mulch evenly around trees, shrubs, and garden beds to conserve moisture, reduce weeds, and give a neat, finished look. Leave a small gap around plant stems and trunks.
Apply after rain or watering when the soil is moist, ideally in spring or autumn. Maintain a depth of 50–75 mm. Replenish annually or when mulch depth drops to maintain its benefits.
Suitable for home gardens and commercial landscapes, Black Gold improves soil health while enhancing the overall appearance of planting areas.
Black Gold mulch is made from recycled untreated woodchip. While it’s a natural product, standard precautions should still be followed:
This guidance helps ensure safe handling while keeping the product in good condition for your garden or landscape.
Coloured mulch may potentially stain. Although we make every effort to ensure that our coloured mulch is dry, we are unable to guarantee that staining will not occur if blown next to sensitive areas (e.g. house walls, concrete driveways, etc.).
Ensure you protect these areas with plywood sheets or similar.
Living Earth accepts no liability for any damage caused as a result of unprotected areas.
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Particle size |
>100mm |
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Weeds |
absent |
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Natural / undyed particle size: |
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<50mm |
>90% pass |
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<15mm |
40 - 70% pass |
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<10mm |
20 - 50% pass |
This mulch is made from recycled woodchips sourced from untreated timber, giving new life to materials that would otherwise go to waste. As a recycled product, small inorganic items may occasionally remain after processing and screening.
Living Earth Mulches meet the requirements of NZS 4454 (Composts, Soil Conditioners and Mulches), so you can be confident they are safe to use. They help conserve soil moisture, suppress weeds, and protect plant roots, while also supporting recycling and waste reduction.
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Living Earth Compost is made from only the best ingredients - clean, green organic material. It is brewed to perfection, then thoroughly tested so we know it is good.
We sell our 40L bags and landscape yard products in selected stockists, see here for more details. We also deliver bulk bags of our products in selected Auckland regions. Simply head to one of our bulk bag product pages to see if we deliver in your area.
Thanks to the activity of all the worker bugs breaking down the material in the composting process, the temperature quickly reaches above 55 degrees. After three days at this heat all weed seeds are killed.
Yes, there is. Living Earth Compost conforms to NZ standard 4454:2005, a standard that provides assurance that all composted matter is safe to use for the home gardener. The standard sets a quality level that Living Earth exceeds in the compost it produces.
We test every batch of compost at our on-site lab and with growth trials to ensure quality standards are met with the plants growing healthily. Other independent lab tests are performed to check levels of nutrients and to ensure the compost meets NZ standards.
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