Our Team of Garden Testers
Meet the gardeners who make sure our products are the best
Amy Dunfee's children pick the first harvest in her test planters. She gardens with her family in Kalamazoo, MI.
Deborah Miuccio
As Product Testing and Research Coordinator, I test, test, and retest our products in the backyard of our headquarters in Burlington, VT to make sure they work for our customers.
“Thanks for letting me do this. It has been a lot of fun and I have finally grown some potted tomatoes! I have never before had success with tomatoes in pots.”
—Jane Peterson,
Scotts, MI
I also coordinate our nationwide program, which gets gardeners from around the country involved in testing. We want to make sure that our products perform well in different hardiness zones, climates, elevations and situations. We also know that it is risky to do all the testing in one place because diseases, such as late blight, could devastate our test crops, leaving us with a summer of no results.
Just like our customers, our testers come from all over the country, and range in ability from novice gardener to professional grower.
The enthusiasm, commitment, and hard work of our testers have been outstanding. Because their results have confirmed our own findings, we will be launching several new and improved products in 2012.
Meet our intrepid team of garden testers for 2011:
Moon Kim of Scarsdale, NY, (left) and Sarah Bouscaren of San Diego, CA.
Phil Wood of Gardner, MA, and Lucinda Trombly of Fort Collins, CO.
Jackie Thiebe of Medford, OR, and Suzanne LaVallee of Hyannis, MA.
Jane Peterson of Scotts, MI; Helga Smith of Milton, DE; and Debbie Winebrenner of Perkins, OK.
Amy Dunfee and family (Kalamazoo, MI); and Jeanne Grist and family (Madison, WI).
Mariana Lamaison of Media, PA; Virginia Adams of Sun City, AZ; and Jerry Parker of Converse, TX.
Rachel Foreman and Robin Taylor of Fountain House, New York, NY.
