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Miracle-Gro Potting Mix, 8 qt. (2 Pack)
Your plants want to show off. Give indoor and outdoor container plants the right ingredients to grow bigger and more beautiful with Miracle-Gro® Potting Mix. Our specially formulated mix feeds for up to 6 months for more blooms and more color*. Use with indoor and outdoor container plants. Grows Plants Twice as Big!®*.
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Your plants want to show off. Give indoor and outdoor container plants the right ingredients to grow bigger and more beautiful with Miracle-Gro® Potting Mix. Our specially formulated mix feeds for up to 6 months for more blooms and more color*. Use with indoor and outdoor container plants. Grows Plants Twice as Big!®*.
Jason –
I used this potting mix for growing pepper and tomato plants. The potting mix was fresh and delivered in perfect condition. Will use again for spring and summer of 2024. Did not see plastic or trash pieces. 100% recommend.
kara –
I have tried a variety of different brands of potting soil but I have to say this Miracle-Gro Potting Mix is absolutely the best and helps my starter seeds and container plants grow so well. I switched away from it last year because it was a tad more expensive than a different brand but I noticed the difference in my blooms and quantity of flowers. I had to go back to Miracle Grow products. I planted my seeds less than a week ago using this enriched potting mix and I already have successful sprouts. i will never stray again.
Comdet –
I’ve been using this potting soil (as well as other soils by Miracle Gro) for years and have yet to be disappointed. The quality is good. It doesn’t match the quality of the ultra premium organic soils, but it’s miles better than the store brands for just a bit more in terms of cost. Works great in my outdoor planters. A good value for the price, especially if you can catch it on a price dip.
To compare it with other size options, 2 cubic feet equals 51.42 dry quarts.
bossy james –
Great value for your money. But full of wood and sticks large pieces.
April L. –
I have ran out of soil for my indoor gardening seedlings and was in-need of more. (Couldn’t buy in-person at any local stores due to scheduling conflicts thought my previous week.) The option of 2 really came in hand and is absorbent as expected. I am not expecting to run out of dirt any time soon and am thankful for this. Up to 6 months of nutrients, to which I do not need to hyperfocus on until the time comes. Thank you!
Jane Biunno –
I received two very large bags, so I’ll have enough for the next few years. One of the bags was broken inside the box, so that was a mess when I opened up the box, but other than that miracle grow is the best dirt, so go ahead and buy it.
Melissa M –
Huge amount of soil for the money paid; much more economical than buying smaller sizes usually found in stores. Two bags make it easier to deal with: keep one stored away til the first bag is used up.
Update Dec 2023
This soil did work great! But read on. This past year I attempted to start a garden from seed for the first time, and re-do my sad garden beds. I learned a lot, especially about actually growing a garden. I’ve realized certain brands, like this one here, may have additives that seem great at first but may not be beneficial long-term. Seedlings I put in this medium grew crazy fast and big. At first I was patting myself on the back thinking “I’m so good at gardening”. Then I realized it was because of steroid-like additives in this soil that were giving them their initial mutant-like growth. Soon these same plants were struggling and needed various amendments. Which then I assumed was because I’d messed something up. But then I realized this soil has additives and that the additives could be part of the issue. The next round of seedlings I started, and all after that, I grew in regular soil (“recipe” below).
NONE of the other seedlings, grown in exactly the same environment but in regular soil, had any of the issues the ones grown in MG soil did.
I had a ridiculously amazing garden this past year, and it’s because I learned early on what seeds need and don’t need. Seedlings, plants, gardens in general, don’t need products like this. Seedlings thrive in untreated soil – with maybe some peat moss mixed in – plus water, light and air. Eventually, when they’re planted in your garden, the only other things I added were some compost (some homemade plus some cheap from local store), mulch on top, and a little fertilizer (I used Neptune’s Harvest Organic Hydrolized Fish & Seaweed Fertilizer as needed….that’s it.
Recipe for growing my other seedlings
– soil: Pro-Mix all purpose soil (inexpensive soil from a big box store) plus
– plus: some sphagnum peat moss (around 3 or 4 parts soil to 1 part peat moss)
– hot water: to kill any mold / fungus / whatever, before adding seeds I’d put the soil and peat moss mix into a bucket, then pour boiling water into it. Mix it up with a big spoon, add more boiling water, repeat, til the mixture was like a squishy damp soil mix. Once it cools, it’s perfect.
– trays: fill seedling trays with that mix – make sure the mix is pushed / tamped down somewhat
– seeds: add seeds as directed on the seed packet. The hot water you mixed in at the start (now cooled) will last for days.
– light: Did you know seedlings don’t need light til they show green shoots? So you don’t even have to be totally ready yet. Once you see shoots, if indoors, hang LED shop lights VERY close to the tops of the shoots (about 12-14 hrs a day), moving them farther away as the plants grow. You’ll know your lights are too far away if the seedlings start to look “leggy” – long and stringy. That means they’re searching for light! Fancy grow lights are OK but not needed. I used cheap 3500-5000K LED light strips and they worked great.
– water: When the soil is dry, put the seedling tray in a larger tray of water (like a cookie sheet). Let the water get sucked in from the bottom. Once the soil is damp, take out of the water.
– air circulation: a little fan blowing on your seedlings for at least part of the day will help them grow strong and keep most mossy/mold issues at bay.
That’s really it.
Photos are from my backyard garden in 2023, all grown from seed. It’d have been more successful but as I also built the new garden beds in spring and early summer, I didn’t get everything planted outside as early as I should have.
If this was helpful to you, I’d appreciate it a lot if you’d like the post. Thank you!
Amber –
One of the things that my mom loves to do for her physical therapy is garden. We have a garden both indoor and outdoor for her so she is able to work on different exercises. One of those exercises is to put dirt in pots standing up in a stable manner. This is the soil that we use for our basil and sweet pepper plants. It soaks up water really well which allows the plants to grow very well. It is a loose dirt, which makes it easy for my mom to use during her therapy. It doesn’t have an odor, but it does have a few twigs. Those are easy to just pick out and put in our limbs pile.
Jaide Sponsler –
Gray potting soil for a great price. It’s about the same. He probably get it from Walmart but counting income to your door. It is perfect for anyone that likes gardening and plants grow beautifully in it cause it has fertilizer already in the soil.
Josh K. –
These bags normally cost anywhere from$25-$30 per bag. These are massive bags full! I love using miracle grow for all my house plants, and to up pot my seedlings after the roots get to be too much for the starter cells. It has the perfect amount of nutrients for your plants to help them transition from starter mix to soil and to help them grow big and strong!