Miracle-Gro Raised Garden Bed Kit

Terrible

My review and issue is not with the product. It’s is about the delivery and the customer service. I TRIED to buy and have this product delivered to my house. I didn’t even get the right product. I wanted the organic raised bed soil that is 1.5 cubic feet. What I received was in ground miracle grow soil that is .75 cubit feet. I ordered 15 bags and was delivered the wrong 15 bags. I tried to have the product picked up and was told it was no possible because Lowes did not deliver it, a third party...

Product great...pick up a joke

Ordered at 10 am promply received email saying order was ready for pickup. Got there at 4pm and checked in and sit there for 10 minutes only to go inside the store and see what was going on and the person that was supposed to be manning the pick for curbside was MIA, would not answer their phone and was instructed to go push a button for assistance. Got over to the button and pushed it and a nice young man named Chris come up and said he did not where the peron was but would help me figure it ou...

Great soil that COMES WITH GNATS FREE OF CHARGE!!!

Great soil as far as how plants like it but every time I buy some I get infested with Fungus Gnats. Last year (4-2024) I had to toss out all my plants because I could not get rid of them. Then I waited until 3/2025 to buy more plants one at a time to make sure none had gnats. And then after 5 new plants and no gnats I made the BIG mistake of buying MG again. I figured maybe it was an infestation at their plant. Well, within a week I started seeing them again! ARHGGG! And they were not the same t...

Same as everyone else

I thought it was just me, but after the review I saw it wasn't. This is basically some sandy brown dirt with some mulch. It isn't black like in the illustration. I did notice a strong manure type smell, but I didn't think twice because father always used composted manure in his gardens. I just had some jalapeno peppers and some tomatoes planted in some grow bags. The jalapenos held on the longest but produced few peppers. The tomatoes died quickly. I was going to put in some large bed container...

If it "feels" too hot, it's probably too hot!

For several years we've successfully started and grown a number of tomato plants in 21" pots filled with Miracle-Gro Moisture Control Potting Mix. This year we replaced the pots with a 7' x 3' x 1.5' raised bed and filled it with Miracle-Gro Raised Bed Soil. As we filled the new raised bed it seemed to me that the soil was too hot, that the mixture was still "cooking", but the labelling on the bag had me thinking it was ready to go and... it was a hot day, so maybe the soil was not really "coo...

want to hatch dozens of baby cockroaches? use this

This is my second review. After all the trouble with this being mostly sticks and mulch, pieces of glass, filled with centipedes, and other bug issues, I thought it couldn't get any worse. When I watered my plants, dozens of tiny bugs I had never seen before started crawling out of the soil and all over and around the edges of the container. Did some quick research with a picture (which was very hard to get because they were so fast and pretty small)...they're cockroach nymphs. Yep, this soil wa...

Fertilizer too hot

I bought 30 bags of Organic Raised Bed Soil for my two raised bed gardens on Saturday April 19 and planted 4 tomato plants and two parlsley plants in them on Sunday, April 20th. Today, Thursday, April 24th, both parsley plants and two of the tomato plants have turned yellow, curled up their leaves and died-that's in 4 days! The soil is very strong in odor as if from strong manure with hundreds of flies all over it. I water them twice each day and the soil is always moist. This stuff is "cra...

Very disappointed!!!

I wish I had read reviews before letting our lawn guy fill my new raised vegetable beds with the raised bed soil. It’s more like cheap mulch with chopped up wood and sticks than what I expected, a rich quality soil. It’s about a month in after planting and little mushrooms are now popping up, pepper leaves are turning yellow, and the majority of seeds did not sprout despite the warm weather and consistent watering. Incredibly disappointed in a company that had a great reputation. I spent a lot o...

Declining quality?

In years past, I had always relied on MiracleGro products… the organic raised bed soils, organic fertilizers…as they had produced great results for my plants. This year I bought the former product for my vegetable garden. I put them into my raised beds in early spring. I expected my plants to be thriving. Now 3 months later, I do not see my plants to be growing fast. Maybe because of the unusual wet and hotter than usual weather, the seedlings grew slow. Mind you, my plants do not have any dis...

These bags had wood chips from finished furniture?

I purchased 6 bags of the '100% Organic Miracle Grow Raised Bed Soil' and had read the reviews here to know there would be wood chips. The soil smelled like manure but I found a lot of what are clearly 1/2" wide by 1/8" in depth pieces of milled wood, very lightweight, with a matte finish. Some of the pieces had clear grooves on either side of 1/8" into the wood. It was clear to me the "wood chips" came from finished wood used in furniture or perhaps edging on kitchen cabinets? In any case, the...