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[cookinfreak]

on my flowers? Or do I need to buy the stuff specifically for flowers?

TIA

cookin

[wagirl]

Thats what I use on all my plants--veggies, herbs, flowers--dont have any fruit growing. 

[AuntG]

Why not give it a try?

[Sweetbay magnolia]

I do.  Works just fine.

[KentuckyWoman]

We use Miracle Gro for tomatoes.  DH won't use the Miracle Gro for flowers and blooms on edible vegetables and fruits. 

[tl98466]

That's what this green thumb uses on all his pots of flowers and veggies! 

[JustJazzmom]

There are many Miracle Gro products. Look at the first number on the package which is nitrogen. Nitrogen encourages foliage, not buds & blooms. That first number should be low & the 2nd number —phosphorus should be higher, as phosphorus encourages blooms & buds.

[EatWell]

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@cookinfreak wrote:

on my flowers? Or do I need to buy the stuff specifically for flowers?

TIA

cookin

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Miracle Grow is not organic.  I do not use it on anything edible.   I use Dr. Grow Organic for my fruit and vegetables.

MG is fine to use on flowers.  Check the NPP %’s first though.  

Good luck.

Hung

[FuzzyFace]

A really good fertilizer, that you can use on anything, is chicken manure pellets, or alfalfa meal. I've used both and I prefer the chicke manure pellets. They are a teeny bit smelly but not all that much; and they work a lot fasterr than alfalfa meal.

I had some pellets left from my previous major feeding on my "important" plants, and what I had left over I scratched into the ground around my wildflowers. WOW! they shot up like rockets and look so beautiful and delicate, swaying in the summer breeze.

Miracle Grow isn't organic, that's true. I guess it's pretty harmless but I prefer organic fertilizer. I do use Miracid on my acid-loving azealas and a few other plants but since our soil is so acid anyway, that's about all I use it for.

And, truth to tell, pellets are a lot easier to use than something like Miracle grow; you don't have to measure and spray, measure and spray, measure and spray ad infinitum. Just sprinkle a handful of chicken pellets or however much you need into the ground around the root line, scratch it in, and water it for maybe 30 minutes and you're good.