Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Hawthorne Gardening Company’s general manager, Chris Hagedorn, visits the AeroGrow International facility in Boulder on Aug. 15, 2016. AeroGrow manufactures indoor garden systems. 
Getting your player ready...
By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist
Scotts Miracle-Gro built a multi-billion dollar business by being a market leader across several categories of the lawn-and-garden industry.
The problem? Those categories weren’t growing all that fast.
To augment sales, Scotts took a page out of Big Beer’s playbook and crafted a wholly owned subsidiary called the to create and capture portions of the booming urban gardening and hydroponics market — an industry bolstered by home-growers of cannabis.
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