Miracle-GRO Tree & Shrub Plant Food Spikes

I'm pretty sure this stuff encouraged my pomegranates to fruit finally. I had gotten a few flowers before, but never fruit; this year I got lots of flowers (also temporarily caged the plants in case it was chickens eating flowers?) and there's a number of fruit on the shrubs.I did find that pounding them into our hard ground many of them broke. Next time I use them I'll likely bring a metal stake (like a concrete steel stake) to pre-drill a hole, then jam the plant food spike into that hole.

These work wonders for growth.Definitely recommended.

Very good product

These work great for my ten citrus trees. Limons three different varieties also oranges tangerines and limes I have them too so I used these fertilizer stakes on them. You don’t have hammer them into the soil rather I prefer to shovel a hole in the ground and lay them sideways and bury them

I’m giving these four stars for the awkwardness factor. I just hammered some of these spikes into the ground around my lemon tree. The soil was quite wet from recent heavy rains. Even so, I found I needed to use a hand tool to dig a hole into which I could place the spike and then hammer it down below the ground a couple inches as instructed. You need to place one of the two provided plastic caps over the fertilizer spike to keep the solid fertilizer from breaking down as you hammer it into the ground. My first cap lasted for three spikes before breaking. I don’t expect the remaining plastic cap to last much longer, meaning that I’ll need to really dig next time as the spikes disintegrate if you hammer them without a cap. So that will be work. Another noteworthy item is the packaging, which I found hard to open without ripping the instructions printed on the outer bag. The small cardboard box over which the plastic cover was used is also awkward to open. Miracle Grow advises finding a sealable plastic bag to store unused spikes in, and keeping the outer bag with instructions in that sealable bag. All this to say it will make for some bulky, somewhat awkward storage. I can’t comment on the effectiveness of the fertilizer but I’ve never been disappointed with Miracle Grow before. If I get less than stellar results I’ll come back and update. But I’m expecting them to work well.