Miracle Grow Garden Soil....Why would one use it?
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Comments (5)I have used the Miracle Grow type feeders and have concluded they are all junk. Most leak horribly at the seal and to the extent they don't they seem to apply extra heavy at the outset and much weaker toward the end. There is inline fertigation equipment available, but not for $5. Having said all the above, if the Miracle Grow worked out for you, it shouldn't be any different with the FP. I can't see any reason why one being a concentrated liquid and the other a concentrated powder would matter much. It all boils down to how well the product mixes into a proper dilution. Now I have to ask an ignorant question. Does MG market their product for watering containers or small areas? I always thought they were for sprinklers and such where it didn't matter if the dilution was too high at the beginning and too low at the end as the entire amount was applied to the same area....See MoreMiracle Grow Garden Soil?
Comments (2)The trees lose their leaves in Fall/winter. They are standard landscape trees, about 10-15 feet in height, not very large. One tree has maple shaped leaves which are green in color during the summer. I guess its a maple tree. The other has white flowers early in the spring and then green leaves in the summer. I dont know the name. Under the bermuda is rock hard clay - very hard to dig. I am not sure if I should just make holes in the existing grass or make a bed. Leaving the grass around the holes would make it difficult to cut the grass in the spring, I suppose.. so I would think a small area devoted to the bulbs would be the answer. I am thinking of planting the bulbs by the driveway and in front of the front door - kind of like a L-shape. The area gets sun until 1 pm, I think. And then the house shades the area in the afternoon....See MoreMiracle Grow Garden Soil
Comments (4)Although Miracle Gro soils don't rate all that high on my scorecard of bagged soils and certainly an expensive option at best, the 'Garden Soil' is perfectly reasonable to use to fill raised beds. Miracle Gro potting soil has label warning against using for inground planting purposes and I wouldn't recommend the garden soil for container use but perfectly adequate for your raised beds. In the future you may want to consider just bring in compost or other organic matter to lighten your clay soil and create planting beds. Not the fastest process but far more beneficial to the soil than the MG products and significantly less expensive....See Moreusing miracle grow potting mix on japanese maples
Comments (11)there has been alot written on container soil here ...your choice is probably not the best...I doubt it will adversly hurt it in the short run but may compact and not be the best in the long run...Fertilizing JM's should only happen in early spring and MG has fertilizer ...that being said CQ's are pretty hardy and probably won't be hurt...here's the link to the gospel on containes ...I might take this with a small grain of salt since you are only doing one plant but it may give you a idea on how to augment your CQ maybe this fall if you are up for repotting ..I think some of this is a bit clinical and over the top for most folks but a hybrid use of this info may be useful to almost all of us and the basic logic behind it is correct IMHO!!!...whether you want to follow it to the tee is your choice or as I said maybe hybridize the jist of it which is what I would do unless you really want to "do" containers ...not just one...David http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/maple/msg112314383375.html?23...See Moremyermike_1micha
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