The black - and - white circle of the Miracle - Gro logo is a intimate sight to gardeners . The liquid plant food filled an empty recession in a burgeon market , and resourceful personality drove the Miracle - Gro Company to success . It has been a top - selling retail fertilizer for decennium , and continues to rule a place in garden sheds and back porches .
History
Miracle - Gro was first conceive by Otto Stern , a German immigrant and gardener . In the 1940s , he sold plants through a mail - order service , but had trouble ensure the mail flora live shipment and transplanting . Stern come near Horace Hagedorn , who worked at a New York publicizing firm , to enquire about purchase air metre on a radiocommunication program . Together , they recognized a niche grocery store for a fast - pretend fluid fertiliser , and they hired Rutgers prof O. Wesley Davidson to create a water - soluble formula . The ease of program , combined with the living accommodations boom of post - World War II , boosted sales of the unripened powder . Peggy Hagedorn , Horace ’s wife , coined the name Miracle - Gro and they establish the Miracle - Gro troupe in 1950 .
Buyout
Hagedorn bought out Stern in the 1980s . After devote much of his Miracle - Gro ancestry to his kid , Hagedorn conflate the Miracle - Gro name with Scotts Corporation to become the Scotts Miracle - Gro Company . Although the Scotts name was heavily marketed , the leaders from the Miracle - Gro Company held the majority of the new company ’s strain as well as multiple seats on the instrument panel of directors .
Formulas
In addition to the original 24 - 8 - 16 formula , with the numbers racket signifying the N - phosphorous - K amounts by system of weights , Miracle - Gro normal exist for roses , flowering plants , tomatoes , trees and shrubs , and even more specialized formulas like those for citrus fruit and ribbon . retail merchant sell premixed liquid fertilizer or , more normally , piss - soluble pulverisation .
Products
The Scotts Miracle - Gro Company produces everything from soil to sprinklers under the Miracle - Gro name . In - ground plant spikes , bagged potting and garden filth , lawn patch mix , and even weed preventer all bear the black - and - yellow Miracle - Gro label . Additionally , the company markets garden hardware such as hosiery - end sprinklers and granular plant food applicator .
Uses
Because Miracle - Gro is a liquid fertilizer , weak plant receive the food boost rapidly . The liquid state also is less potential to burn plants , and gardeners can dilute the answer for seedlings or new transplants . As a unchanging powder , Miracle - Gro does not recede its potency as promptly as pre - mixed liquid fertilizers , get it commodious for homeowners to now and then fertilizer indoor plant or lowly - maintenance gardens . plant also absorb the liquid fertiliser through their leaf , increase the rapid intake of nutrients for skin gardens .
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