SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO — Director's Dealing 2012

Jun 12, 2012

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO (SMG)
CIK: 0000825542
Period of Report: 2012-06-08

Reporting Person: HAGEDORN JAMES (Director, Chairman and CEO, 10% Owner)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2012-06-08	Common Shares	A	219.671	$42.086	Acquired	105974.434	Direct
2012-06-08	Common Shares	A	24.6666	$42.4888	Acquired	4928.2571	Indirect

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Shares	32496.323	Indirect
Common Shares	2677726	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Reflects common shares of the Issuer ("Common Shares") represented by amount credited to the benchmark Company stock fund within the reporting person's bookkeeping account under The Scotts Company LLC Executive Retirement Plan.

F2: Common Shares were acquired pursuant to the dividend reinvestment feature of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Discounted Stock Purchase Plan (DSPP).

F3: Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 16a-1(a)(1), the reporting person may be deemed, solely for purposes of determining whether he is a beneficial owner of more than 10% of the Common Shares, to be the beneficial owner of the securities of the Issuer that are held by Hagedorn Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership in which the reporting person is a general partner (the "Partnership"). Represents the aggregate proportionate interest of the reporting person and those family members in whose holdings he may be deemed to have a pecuniary interest, in Common Shares held by the Partnership.