Miracle-Gro All-Purpose Garden Soil for Flowers and Vegetables, In-Ground Use, Feeds up to 3 Months, 2 cu ft

I bought a number of bags nearly three months ago to top off a large raised bed. Most of the seeds and starter plants have not done well. In fact, the 'soil' appears more like bark mulch than rich soil. Few seeds have germinated, Leaves have yellowed and dropped, growth has been incredibly slow, and production appears to be sparse compared to the previous years. On the contrary, plants I bought and planted in an earth box with old soil are doing far better; they are healthy and already producing peppers and tomatoes. I am very disappointed and will not spend this type of money again.

I have had a great garden for years. This year, I wanted to raise the soil level to compensate for soil that had been lost through the retaining blocks over the years, so I added 30 bags of Miracle-Gro Garden Soil. I planted the garden as usual, with some seeds planted directly in the soil and some young plants transplanted into the garden. The seeds took much longer to germinate than usual, and the transplanted plants were struggling. A few weeks later, the lower leaves on all of the transplanted tomatoes turned yellow. Researching this condition on many gardening sites suggested that it was a deficiency of necessary nutrients and minerals. I had the soil tested, and the results came back that there was zero nitrogen, trace amounts of phosphorous, zero potassium, and the pH was above 8. The Miracle-Gro Garden Soil was essentially sterile. After receiving these results, I started adding fertilizer to the base of each plant on a weekly basis, and the plants perked up a bit, but have not produced even 1/10th of the harvest I usually get. The areas of the garden between the plants, where I didn’t add any fertilizer, are completely bare – even the weeds won’t grow there. At the end of this growing season, I’m going to have to scrape out this sterile soil and replace it with plain topsoil. This is very frustrating because I thought Miracle-Gro was a premium product.

Been using this for over 10 years the last two years it’s been nothing but wood chips last time I spend that kind of money on it you changed it to wood chips haven’t had any luck using it

I bought many bags for our new raised garden. There is foamy crud growing in corners an between rows of veggies. Is this safe to eat the veggies? Not happy with spending to get good quality an got this.

Soil looks very rich. But I’ve noticed lots of mushrooms popping up. Not just a couple, they die from the heat and more sprout up. Are these Magic Mushrooms? Did I hit the motherland of soil and don’t know it? Please advise if mushrooms are edible

I keep finding plastic, wire and large sticks in this mix. I thought it might’ve just been one bag but they all had plastic and other foreign objects. They also failed to grow much of anything.

Plastic and twigs in every bag i bought it at all happy it’s like someone took dirt just outta a dump or something…

I purchased 94 bags of this product for my two raised beds and it is essentially mulch. I have noticed as others have stated there is a lot of plastic trash in the product as well. This was definitely a case of you get what you pay for. I think in a couple of years the “mulch” will break down and form a good base but I plan on adding in some better soil in the short term.

I bought 12 bags of your 2 cu.ft. bags for my impatients that I have planted for the past 6 years. I plant 32 plants in my 20' planter and never had any problems. I used your product this year and my all my plants leaves turned yellow and fell off. I took them out and planted 32 more the same thing happened. Hundreds of mushrooms came up and that is the only explanation I can come up with as to why they all did that. I will never buy your garden soil again.

I bought around 10 bags as I was trying to fill something up and only a handful were good. The other bags were filled with large sticks and BONES!! I was truly grossed out and disappointed.

My son just picked up miracle grow “in ground” soil for me from Sam’s club. What a disappointment! Upon opening I found the soil wet , hard as a rock, and the smell and texture reminded me of barn clean out . I had to break the soil apart by pounding it with a trowel just to get 2 cups of soil out of the bag. Don’t buy this soil EVER!

Product is mostly ground up wood, very little dirt. All this wood (likely ground up pallets) promotes mushroom growth. I have purchased 15 bags of garden soil last year, this year 15 bags of raised bed soil- both the same.

Absolutely horrible!! After I bought a lot of bags, spent a lot of time getting my gardens ready, I now have a TON of weeds I never had before!!! I bought a different brand of soil, no abundance of these weeds!!!! DO NOT RECOMMEND, unless you love weeding!!!

we use this all the time. The most recent bag had a strong, oily odor. why would this be?

Horrible stench that I've been waiting to dissipate, it's been over a week and I find myself wondering "why does the house smell like sewage?!" several times a day before I remember this "soil" is in the backyard, wafting in. The 3 bags I had left over to use today were full of plastic, some weird like...composite, and a kiwi sizes rock which was more a surprise than anything. Absolutely horrid, I can only blame myself and warn others.

This is NOT soil. I bought 4 bags and opened the first and smelled of bark mulch and had white mold found in mulch bags. The material is predominantly medium and finely ground wood and bark. Soil is made of 4 ingredients: clay, silt, sand, and organic matter. The latter at no more than 5%. I did a separation test in a quart jar and found only 10% to be inorganic components. This is a cheap, sub par material, NOT soil.

Not much "soil" mostly treated wood chips and bark. IMO, not good for seed germination. I did a side-by side comparison of this product versus real top soil. After 10 days I had great seed germination with the top soil and very little with this product. Probably use this as a soil additive but you're better off finding a local supply of real garden soil.

Bought 40 bags a month ago and now that it is settling all glass, stone, plastic and metal are coming to surface.

Bought the miracle grow garden soil and it was more like reused mulch with a little dirt in it. Found chicken bones or bones of some sort in it, red bark and a tons of sticks. Like I said it was more like mulch with some dirt in it. Very disappointed. I’ve bought their garden soil every year and it was soil, not what I have.

I bough 4 bags and when I opened them it was all white like moldy. I am not using it and it is a 40 mile round trip to return it.