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6/4/2018 Still a beginner Gardner and still using bloom booster to feed my plants. I do use Jack’s Petunia FeED in between feedings to give my petunias their Iron. Using a drip irrigation and an EZ Flo fertilzing unit has made me possibly go up to novice Gardner but I don’t want to get my hopes up yet. My supertunias are out of control. I have never been able to keep plants alive. Even the trusty Cacti died on me. It is something I am not proud of because I could neither cook nor keep a plant alive and therefore I had nothing to brag about on Facebook. With no kids, no cooking, and no living plants, I felt my Facebook life empty. My two dogs grew up and are the fat and lazy which means no more cute puppy pics but constant uploads of my dogs laying down. My "likes" dissipated and my world grew dark. It was a cold, sleety day in February where everything was grey outside and I decided I needed therapy. I grabbed my purse and headed to the mall to American Express my emotions. In a department store, there was pair of shoes winking at me. They were a pair of soft grey Birkenstocks. These were the old school Birkenstocks we all use to wear in college. I tried them on and I felt my feet tingle as the little inner boho hippy started to chit chat with me. At first she told me to dread my hair and throw out my razors. I told her no since I did not want a divorce. She then told me to go buy some planters. I agreed. After I finished my purchase, I skipped down to Restoration Hardware and bought super expensive, super large stone cast pots. After I got home, I realized I may be in for a divorce regardless because I put one heck of an expense on the credit card. The UPS man arrived later in the week. I am pretty sure he was cursing me as he unloaded these huge boxes. If he wasn't cursing me, my husband took care of it as we dragged the pots to the back patio. He was not happy and told me I wasted our money. My Birkenstock clad feet stomped through the house and I told my husband he was wrong. This was the year I would keep plants alive. I researched like a mad woman on how to keep plants alive. Water is very important and so is nutrition. Apparently these buggers need a little help after you stick them in a pot. May 1st arrived and I rushed over to my nursery to pick up "babies". I had a list of all the plants I wanted in my pots. I even I had a drawn diagram with my newly learned lesson of "Thrillers, Fillers, and Spillers." I also had my shade and full sun plants listed out. I came home proud with potting soil and plants. Husband looked at me and stated firmly, "You buy them, you plant them." So me and my birkenstocks began the process of planting all the babies from the nursery. I left two inches from the top of the soil to the top of the rim of the pot so water would not spill over. I packed all my plants in and watered them down. Now there was only time and I was nervous. I knew I needed to do something other than just water the plants and that's when I read about fertilizing. So much information and so many products. I ended up just going back to the nursery and I saw Bloom Booster. I picked up and bought it because I definitely wanted blooms to boost. I watched my watering in the beginning so I wouldn't have root rot and I made sure only to fertilize when my plants were not thirsty. I took the large scoop and put one scoop full of blue magic in a 1 1/2 gallon watering can. I did this every seven days. By June, my husband was asking for a chainsaw so he could clear a walkway on our patio. It is now August and my plants are out of control in a good way. They get water every day (sometimes twice on 100 plus degree days) and I feed them twice a week now. Each pot gets 1 watering can of the blue mixture on top of their normal drink of water in the morning. People come over and laugh at how large my plants have become. My husband is now really into the plants and brags to his friends. I just sit quietly and smile since me and my birkenstocks know the real truth. So in the end, all you need is a cold hard winter to make you crave for green, a pair of Birkenstocks, a husband who challenges you that nothing will grow under your care, well draining containers, and Miracle-Gro Bloom Booster.