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[serabelle]

I am soooooo happy that garden season is finally here! I live in Western PA, so watching all of you post your beautiful pictures has just been maddening for the past couple of months! I spent almost my entire weekend in the dirt though, so now I feel much better

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[heinleinfan]

Oh, and I meant to add that I'm an organic-only person myself, too...but my husband and I do have one small container of miracle grow that we bring out when a particular plant is doing really poorly. We got it last year when our entire garden was obliterated by a freak hail storm, and we really think it saved some plants that just weren't gonna make it otherwise, they were pretty much stripped bare of all leaves by the hail.

But, for your mix, perhaps trying a good bit of brewed coffee grounds in place of the miracle grow? Some Starbucks shops will actually save up big bags of brewed coffee for you for free, if you call and ask. The only thing to watch out for is that coffee is high in nitrogen and low in phosphorus, and it's acidic, so it's better for non-flowering plants and acid-loving plants. I sometimes will have a bit of coffee left over from my morning pot and I dump it right into my indoor herbs, and I spread the grounds on my indoor plants occasionally, and they seem to love it. My indoor plants are two types of basil, oregano, mint, ivy, aloe vera, a bay tree and some rosemary.