Can Miracle Grow cause vegetables to lose flavor?
Miracle grow is fine for flowers, but a poor addition to a vegetable plant. It is equivalent to giving a two year old a pound of sugar to eat. The child is hyper and full of energy for two hours and bam, falls asleep, exausted. Miracle grow is too high in nitrogen and makes the plant mature too fast and makes the sexual cycle, or polination time shorter. The result: A tall, fast growing plant with little, or no offspring. A slow release fertilizer is recommended for vegetables. I use a product called Black Kow composted cow manure and will swear by it. I spread a layer about 1 inch thick around the seedling about the size of a dinner plate. This is beneficial because it is .5, .5, .5 on the fertilizer scale and you cant over fertilize using it. When the plant reaches its sexual cycle, or has blooms on it, I ann another inch of manure, same size as before, to boost the plants energy to produce. My tomato plants are on average 10-15 feet high every year and I have had as many as 140-160
