This year I decided to plant a garden. I had my husband build me a planter eight feet long by two feet wide and eighteen inches deep. I used my wine crate planters for the tomatoes and the big planter for the green beans, one tomato plant, green peppers and lettuce. I have a small plant of chives growing as well. On the outside of the planter I planted squash.
Somewhere in the planting of this garden, I decided to use Miracle Grow soil. for vegetables It took a bundle of cash; but I planted in the rich top soil hoping for some results. I had used it before but this year I use quite a bit of it, letting it fill the new planter.
I think this is where things got a bit out of hand. My tomatoes are about five feet tall. The pepper plants and green beans took every inch of soil in the planter and grew bigger than any plants I have grown before. I have eaten fresh salad leafs and many green beans since the middle of July. I use the green beans for salads and eating raw. I liked them cooked as well. So, back to what I was saying…
I have heard that Miracle Grow helps plants grow. What I did not realize was how big!! I have tomatoes all over every plant and wonder just what the yield will be when harvest time comes. I, also, wonder how safe this product is for humans. I have decided that most of the nutrients in the soil are non-toxic. In fact, it probably would not be on the market if it was harmful. I found another blog called, “The Rustic Vegetable Garden, Miracle Grow and my Fall Garden, written by Gary Pilarchik. Also, you might find it interesting to learn how to transplant tomatoes. Apparently Gary likes using Miracle Grow and using planters. In this video however, he is not using it. I probably should have watched this video before I planted my tomatoes.
What articles and videos like this did not tell me is…how big the plants would get. I have lost branches of tomatoes because the plant was so big it broke it’s branches from the weight of the tomatoes. I should have been more careful and watched the plant, before the branches broke. I just never had plants grow that big before. I did not prune the plant either.
The long and short of this story is, most of us know how to buy a plant start in the spring. What most of us have to find out before we begin to grow planter gardens is what are the best products to buy to grow the best plants possible with the best yields. So I will stop commenting on my garden and the overly large plants and just eat the harvests. I did all this to lose weight and eat healthy this year. Maybe some one out there will comment on this blog and let me know if I did the wrong thing by using all Miracle Grow soil; and whether plants are suppose to get as big as mine did.
JOYSTECHTOOL 