Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Greg and April" <gregandapril@earthlink.net>]

Just catching up.

I have noticed that there appears to a be a method to his madness, with a 
difference of where and when he sprays his different concoctions.

Things like the beer, Epsom Salts, and household ammonia, , mostly end up on 
the ground, to feed the good microorganisms & plants.

Things like tobacco juice, and Listerine generally are sprayed on the 
plants, when he is targeting insects & spraying plants to prevent disease.

Herbicide and vinegar, when he is targeting unwanted plants.

Dish washing soap is almost always used, because, it is to help the rest of 
the other stuff, adhere to what is being sprayed ( plants with waxy leaves ) 
or otherwise soak in.    The soap also helps the stuff get in small areas.


Greg H.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 13:39
Subject: [Livingontheland] Jerry Baker?


> 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
> ---------------