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Post by 1dave on Apr 18, 2017 12:08:45 GMT -5
Whoa! Jerry Baker is still alive? I just got this 35 page booklet. He does think outside the box. Here he mentions using a flour sifter to spread fertilizer. Hmmm - I'll use one to scatter borax. I had to turn to the last page to find what he uses duct tape for Roses and rotten bananas? It has something to do with the peels, but you have to buy his book to find out.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Apr 18, 2017 14:27:10 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 17:02:20 GMT -5
Flour sifter sounds like a small garden.....
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 18, 2017 17:11:23 GMT -5
Banana peels provide potassium for the blooms. And placed around the rose bushes will help keep aphids off the roses as they prefer the banana peels to the roses.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Apr 18, 2017 20:42:12 GMT -5
My advice is to make and use lots of compost. I feel so strongly about this that I made a movie about it. Here's the trailer:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 21:27:31 GMT -5
I once saw a compost movie that has the household toilet flush into an artificial "wetland" that filtered and broke down the waste products. The secondary effluent was used to grow vegetables hydroponically.
Eat the veggies, pass it thru, and aqua-compost it back into fertlize for the vegetables.
Circle of life.
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Post by spiceman on Apr 18, 2017 23:46:53 GMT -5
I made a cage for my compost out of skids and wired together with coat hangers. Works great. Every year I sprinkle compost maker on the pile and it turn into dirt in couple months.
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Post by geezer on Apr 19, 2017 7:09:28 GMT -5
Banana peels provide potassium for the blooms. And placed around the rose bushes will help keep aphids off the roses as they prefer the banana peels to the roses. Better to toss the banana peels in the neighbors roses! Then as a peace offering give him a couple japanese beetle traps!
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Post by fantastic5 on Apr 19, 2017 7:15:28 GMT -5
Love your trailer Jugglerguy ! Did you use that at school?
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Post by fantastic5 on Apr 19, 2017 7:23:04 GMT -5
When I first started gardening years ago I invested in Jerry Bakers hardback book . Absolutely worse $19.95 I ever spent . I bet I still have it on my book shelf....need to recycle it back to McKays.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 9:41:05 GMT -5
Sorry Dave, that guy is a snake oil salesmen. gardenrant.com/2006/06/jerry_baker_ame_1.htmlSpraying tonics every week or three is silly. Latex paint on winter trimmed branches? Epsom salts, regularly sprayed on growing leaves? Master marketeer he is.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Apr 19, 2017 9:45:39 GMT -5
My advice is to make and use lots of compost. I feel so strongly about this that I made a movie about it. Here's the trailer: Rob, I believe those long winters indoors have altered you. Wacko.
Honestly, anyone can compost, I'm jealous of your editing skills. Bravo!
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 19, 2017 10:01:37 GMT -5
My Dad was a gardener and as was his Dad (Farmer).....So been around it my whole life....Swore that I (and my brothers) would never have a garden after we left home!!! Here we are,all three of us with gardens...LOL I have been taught will all the tricks of the trade and the lows and highs of gardening.. Best advice is to buy top quality plants,enough water and sunshine and weed free... You will have a great yielding crop and flowers for view... Take the books and use them as compost! LOL
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Post by Jugglerguy on Apr 19, 2017 12:31:24 GMT -5
Love your trailer Jugglerguy ! Did you use that at school? I teach math, so no. My wife enjoys showing it to her classes though.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Apr 19, 2017 12:32:17 GMT -5
My advice is to make and use lots of compost. I feel so strongly about this that I made a movie about it. Here's the trailer: Rob, I believe those long winters indoors have altered you. Wacko.
Honestly, anyone can compost, I'm jealous of your editing skills. Bravo!
Those are ready made templates in iMovie. Very easy to make.
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Post by wannabee on Apr 19, 2017 12:48:31 GMT -5
Best advice is to buy top quality plants,enough water and sunshine and weed free... You will have a great yielding crop and flowers for view... This. Plants need little or no "help" from humans to do just fine. It reminds me of the beekeeper adage: "Beekeepers need bees. Bees do not need beekeepers."
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Post by 1dave on Apr 19, 2017 13:17:28 GMT -5
Best advice is to buy top quality plants,enough water and sunshine and weed free... You will have a great yielding crop and flowers for view... This. Plants need little or no "help" from humans to do just fine. It reminds me of the beekeeper adage: "Beekeepers need bees. Bees do not need beekeepers."
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