Baja, clarify your reasoning for me. The NPK of Miracle Gro is 28-8-16, or a ratio of 3-1-2, recommended for most plants by many authorities. Because the NPK indicates the percentages of those nutrients in that package by weight, and that product is designed to be diluted to one tablespoon to one gallon, or 1:256, how is that an obscene amount of fertilizer?
Now, whether healthy garden soil actual needs fertilizer at all without determination by soil testing is another issue altogether, but compared to the majority of fertilizers in the stores, especially "bloom booster" formulas, MG seems okay.
