Watch them grow! (Miracle Gro)

Member Name: song_of_calliope

Product:	Miracle Gro
Date:	29/10/09 (22 review reads)
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Advantages: Helps plants grow really well

Disadvantages: None that I can think of

I don't really have much of a garden as such - I've never planted flowers or anything and limit myself mostly to taking care of the lawn. But I did recently give growing tomatoes a go, and the only way I could get them to ripen was to use miracle gro.

I had to grow my tomatoes indoors as it is very cold up where I live. I bought the plants from a charity fundraising event and they were already quite tall when I got them. I put them in the windowsill and hoped for the best, watering them every few days when the soil got dry. Nothing happened.

My father happened to come round and he had no idea what to advise me, saying that perhaps the problem was that the plants hadn't been fertilised by bees (we are from the city!). But finally he and I put our heads together and decided that the best thing to do would be to add some kind of plant food to the compost. Perhaps this would be obvious to anyone else but we had never grown anything before in our lives.

Luckily, the previous occupant of my house had left some Miracle Gro in the shed and I went and got it. All I did was sprinkle a bit into the water I was giving the tomatoes. I watered them with this mixture each time instead of just plain water and within a week I could tell a big difference. The tomato plants started growing and flowering and finally tiny little green tomatoes appeared on them. Still using Miracle Gro, I watched these tomatoes grow bigger over the next few weeks until finally they ripened. I picked my first red tomato off the vine and bit in - and it tasted terrible!!! Not what I was expecting. It was very mealy and not flavourful at all. I put this down to the fact that they didn't receive good care and I think I overwatered them, and I can't fault the Miracle Gro for this problem, although I'm not entirely sure so if anyone has experience with Miracle Gro making their fruit and veg taste bad I'd like to hear about it.

Still, I'm going to give this product the benefit of the doubt as without it I wouldn't have had any tomatoes at all! It really was almost miraculous the way they started growing and maturing as soon as I started using this.

Miracle Gro costs around £7 for 2kg in B&Q apparently, although it might be worth checking whether someone has left some in your shed first before you buy it!

Summary: This stuff really works.