Miracle-Gro Plant Food

My kind neighnour brought me Miracle-Gro "Pour and Feed" in mistake for Growmoore. Does any know what this contains? There is no information on the bottle, nor on the Miraacle-Gro wensite.

 

You could try giving them a ring.

01483 410210 Thats the geographical number for them as opposed to the 0870 number (got the number from saynoto0870)

 

Here you go Laurie,
Description

• High quality plant food for having bigger and lusher plants with
  noticeably more blooms.
• Features a ready to use formula.
• Results in more colourful blooms and stronger stems.
• Suitable for indoor and outdoor plant use.
• Ideally used between January to December.
• Comes in a non-drip easy to use bottle.
• Sixty capfuls will serve sixty medium sized pots.
• Supplied with complete usage and safety instructions.
• NPK fertiliser 6-5-5 with trace elements

 

In other words, it's almost identical to Growmore! Many thanks.

 

I love that line - presumably it stays in the shed the rest of the time :p

 

Thanks - I'll post a little hello in the welcome a little later

 

It's fascinating how Miracle-Gro has taken market share in the gardening world.

I think the key is in the cunningly chosen name (miracles will happen before your very eyes!) and the colour of the powdered form (bright blue - which we all know is the colour of magical spells!). Alongside Miracle-Gro with its magical name and magical colour, old favourites like Growmore and Phostrogen looked like yesterday's news. And I always thought that Phostrogen sounded a little bit too much like phosgene for comfort!

I've used all three and can't really see much difference between them, except perhaps Phostrogen claims to contain lots of trace elements. And that makes me feel a bit better, even if my plants don't need them!

 

Interesting thread, what does everybody think about plant feeds??:confsd: Do you get what you pay for, or is a plant feeder from the pound shop just as good. 02

 

Laurie - your original question was "what does it contain". The answer is very little.

There was a thread on this some time ago. http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=193&highlight=tomorite
As I understand it, all plants require simple chemicals N (nitrogen), P (phosphorous) and K (potassium), plus a number of other trace elements. They are all simple inorganic chemicals produced by large chemical companies such as ICI. Consequently there is no difference in the quality of the chemicals, only a difference in the quantity and price.

I did a survey which showed that Growmore was the cheapest at £4.75 per kilo of active ingredient (but it isn't easily soluble in water). Solid Miraclegrow was also very cheap at £6.24, but a small container of liquid Miraclegrow cost £73 for the same amount of active ingredient.

 

Given you can buy a plant food with all the elements in, can you make one with them all in.

I know nettle or comfrey tea contains lots of nitrogen and is a good food for plants - but is there one which includes phosphorous and/or potassium ??

Wood Ash for potassium ??

Brian

 

I watched a trial on UKTV gardens ( which by the way is playing funny beggars on my sky-anyone else having the same issue? I could do with assistance), and it more or less stated that liquid tomato fertilizer was the best plant food on all types of plants-herbaceous perennials, annuals, tomatoes ( duh!) roses etc.

Tomato food I think leaves a magnesium deficiency-I still don`t understand why that is.

But I go by fish blood and bone for everything ecept fruiting plants and that I feed with additional tomato food.

My garden is in its first year of real concerted effort so I will go by the general consensus after next season.