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Get Your Garden Growing

By Paula |

Get Your Garden Growing

Miracle-Gro Gro-ables www.bellalimento.com
A few weeks ago we got our started our container using Miracle-Gro Gro-Ables. Gro-ables are seed pods that provide an ideal growing environment for your seed. Each ready-to-plant seed pod contains growing materials, plant food and a specially selected seed from one of 17 different varieties including basil, spinach, cilantro, dill, sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes and more.

All you need to do is plant your seed, water and enjoy watching it grow into something greater. Easy right?

Butterhead LettuceButterhead Lettuce

Here’s what the plants are looking like just a few short weeks later. As you can see they’re growing like crazy. Before long we’ll have tomatoes coming out of our ears. There is simply nothing better than a vegetable or fruit than you’ve grown yourself. Period.

Home grown tomatoes are high on my gardening totem pole. We’ve got a total of 13 tomato plants going. Not sure how I ended up with an odd number but nevertheless.

Tomato PlantsGlobe Tomatoes

We’ll be using them to make things like our: HOMEMADE TOMATO SAUCE, OVEN ROASTED TOMATOES, and of course we’ll be CANNING some of those tomatoes so we can enjoy them into the winter months.

Tomato Collage www.bellalimento.comOven Roasted Tomatoes

Our herbs are coming in faster than I can keep up. This my friends is a good problem to have. I put fresh herbs into just about every meal (and yes drinks too) that we make. A snip here and a snip there. Amazing how a little can so enhance a dish.

Pesto Ingredient Collage www.bellalimento.comHomemade Pesto

Try making HOMEMADE BASIL PESTO , HOMEMADE SPINACH PESTO, and we’re all about our HERB CUBES.

Herb Cubes www.bellalimento.com Herb Cubes

It’s not too late to start your gardens. To help you get started we’re GIVING AWAY a Miracle-Gro PRIZE PACK:

GIVEAWAY: 1 Gro-ables prize pack includes:

  • Gro-ables seed pods
  • Steel watering can
  • Decorative herb plant labels
  • Gardening gloves

Use the Rafflecopter Widget below to enter.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

What are you going to GRO first?

Baci!
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Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by The Scotts Company. I was compensated for my time. Opinions are my own. Always have been. Always will be.

 

Comments

  5. Dave Webb says

    I appreciate that this product is directed at folks who feel they can’t grow anything, and/or want to grow very few plants, but I can’t help thinking that this is a perfect example of what’s wrong with our economy – people creating more and more needless products and creating “markets” that shouldn’t exist. For heaven’s sake people, you can put a seed in a pot of soil can’t you?!? Growing your own food is not about buying specialty products that make other people wealthy!!!

  6. Gail Weitzel says

    My favourite thing to grow is tomatoes, and I’m going to try the Growables seed pod for this year’s beauties.

  8. Amanda @the_kitcheneer says

    Your little garden is adorable! We are growing are own veggie garden this year too with Miracle Gro! Its amazing! I too see roasted cherry tomatoes in my future this summer!

  13. foodwanderings says

    Oh goodness I am so saddened I gave up on vegetable gardening. All the critters, rabbits and deer here ravaged through it in the past so I gave up. I am so tempted to start over with these seeds.

  17. Rust says

    Tall cane begonias and tropicals are my favorites, along with tomatoes and herbs.

  19. Marcia says

    I live in an apartment in New York City and I have a very small terrace. But I am always thrilled to get a few tomatoes from my tomato plants! It’s certainly not like the huge garden my dad had when I was growing up, but there really is nothing like enjoying home-grown herbs and vegetables!

  22. Victoria says

    Easy…Cherokee Purple Tomatoes…they are like taking a bite of summer!

  23. V. Mayer says

    Thanks for the chance! I forgot to plant cilantro this year, so I’d pick that!

  30. Phong says

    Love growing herbs in my garden. They cost wayyyyyy too much at the store, and aren’t even fresh!

  33. Starla B says

    Tomatoes are without a doubt my favorite! Yum, those herb cubes look delish!

  34. Gina M says

    I love growing fresh basil to make pesto!

    Entered the rafflecopter form as “Wild Orchid”

    Thanks for the chance to win!
    wildorchid985 at gmail dot com

  35. Kiki C says

    Love to grow fresh herbs, especially basil! Fun to watch, better to taste! Thanks for the great giveaway!

  36. Jennie H. says

    Would love to try these pods – planning to plant tomatoes this summer!

  38. Rose | The Clean Dish says

    These pods look great!!
    We have a container garden going right now – it’s so much fun and so rewarding to have some of your own produce!
    Thanks for the giveaway, too!!

  41. Ruth Naylor says

    You can’t go wrong with herbs! I love mint and rosemary. I don’t have basil this year, but it grows like a weed and my oregano is about to be out of control!