I just read in another forum reference to Miracle Gro Organic soil. Does anyone have any info about it? I tend to worry about anything labled "organic" that's produced by a chemicle company. I also read a bit online about troubles with pests and mushroom spores being present in the soil.
It's a little worrisome that only food and drugs are really held to "strict" standards about what can be labled "organic".
Any thoughts?
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Microcollie - you seem to have covered it pretty well in your first post:
1) it is Scotts, they don't really have a good ecological perspective and they're not a company I particularly want to support, if I don't have to
2) they do have reputation for passing along some pests and diseases with their products.
3) see the thread cynthia linked, it's not a good balanced fertilizer and the chicken manure it's based on creates pollution issues.
1) it is Scotts, they don't really have a good ecological perspective and they're not a company I particularly want to support, if I don't have to
2) they do have reputation for passing along some pests and diseases with their products.
3) see the thread cynthia linked, it's not a good balanced fertilizer and the chicken manure it's based on creates pollution issues.
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I don't know about organic miracle grow,but I did buy a bag of potting soil this spring that said organic on it under another name,,when I got it home I saw it was put out by the miracle grow folks. I used it in my hole plantings that I make up every year with green sand etc.cynthia_h wrote:You may be interested in this thread, entitled "Organic Miracle Grow"?
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=125591
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but reading that older thread about chicken manure I had to laugh.
every fall I clean my pigeon loft and chicken coop out and dig it in to my raise beds and cover it up with about 3 ft. of moldy hay,,I have the nices crops in the neighborhood on this dusty road.
maybe I didn't read enough about it,but I swear buy my poultry manure and wold never change a thing.
I learned about it in the 1950's and 60's and it has always worked for me.
I know my worms are happy in it,plus it brings a large pick worm to it after it sits awhile.
I learned about it in my old organic gardening and farming magazines that my mother started me out with in the mid 1950's.
I do know that any manure will run off if you don't work it into the top soil,the fall is best so it composts over the winter for spring planting.
as I use raised beds it will not go any where even if I topped dressed it on my beds.
every thing will perculate downwards even robin poo.
what I would worry about is the corparate farmers or agri-bussiness farmer with their chemicals they spray and spread by the tons and hundereds og gals.
I don't see how a gardened is gonna hurt the enviroment useing manures of any kind.
just my opinion.
and the opinion of my old organic mags,
Larry
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muddy45 wrote:I don't know about organic miracle grow,but I did buy a bag of potting soil this spring that said organic on it under another name,,when I got it home I saw it was put out by the miracle grow folks. I used it in my hole plantings that I make up every year with green sand etc.cynthia_h wrote:You may be interested in this thread, entitled "Organic Miracle Grow"?
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=125591
Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9
but reading that older thread about chicken manure I had to laugh.
every fall I clean my pigeon loft and chicken coop out and dig it in to my raise beds and cover it up with about 3 ft. of moldy hay,,I have the nices crops in the neighborhood on this dusty road.
maybe I didn't read enough about it,but I swear by my poultry manure and would never change a thing.
I learned about it in the 1950's and 60's and it has always worked for me.
I know my worms are happy in it,plus it brings a large pink worm to it after it sits awhile.
I learned about it in my old organic gardening and farming magazines that my mother started me out with in the mid 1950's.
I do know that any manure will run off if you don't work it into the top soil,the fall is best so it composts over the winter for spring planting.
as I use raised beds it will not go any where even if I topped dressed it on my beds.
every thing will perculate downwards even robin poo.
what I would worry about is the corperate farmers or agri-bussiness farmer with their chemicals they spray and spread by the tons and hundereds of gals.
I don't see how a gardener is gonna hurt the enviroment useing manures of any kind.
just my opinion.
and the opinion of my old organic mags,
Larry