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Jerry Baker quackery or true
Jerry Baker is the worst kind of charlatan passing out garden advice.
He is truly America's #1 masturbating gardener and a very charismatic con man. If he was hustling anything other than bogus garden advice, he would have been locked up years ago as a dangerous fraud. DigitalVinyl wrote in message ... "Mogie" wrote: Disclaimer: I was curious so I read some stuff by Jerry Baker. Is it true that adding table sugar to fertilizer is good for a plant. He suggested boring a hole in the ground and pouring the mixture into that. Is he for real? He has a lot of weird things. My sister used a lawn tonic and said it worked great but not in any comparative way (like treating half the lawn). I used the Aphid spray (basically onions, garlic, cayenne, a little dish liquid) and it worked and didn't hurt the plants at all. The next day almost all the aphids had dropped off. (I used a hand sprayer-I didn't jet-spray them off) I used a commercial one later in the season and didn't pay attention that you can't spray it in sunlight. It fried the plants. The next day the plants were dead and I still had a hundred aphids on them. I think much of what he writes reads silly and very bumpkine. However we all have to realize that plants grow wildly when were aren't around and even when we do nothing to encourage them. The idea that basic substances might contain the traces and other elements that could feed a plant isn't unreasoanble. We all know that NPK isn't enough to maintain healthy plants. And if we are humble enough we know that there are a few mysteries going on in the ground and plants that we don't understand. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 1st Year Gardener |
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