Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

I've been seeing Jerry Baker - "America's Master Gardener" - lately on PBS 
and wondering where he gets some of his stuff. He makes growing sooo 
complicated I'd give up if I had to do all that. He preaches compost and 
mulching, but he wants everybody spraying soil and plants with "tonic" made 
of Listerine, tobacco juice, Epson Salt, beer, and God knows what else. And 
he just told us how to use Roundup. Do people do all this stuff in home 
gardens?

Beer to feed the bacteria and Listerine to kill them?

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not 
television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only 
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it.
   - Aldo Leopold in  Round River, 1933