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Re: Make your own "Miracle-Gro"

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In a message dated 5/17/99 10:44:05 PM, dragonfly@joymail.com writes:

<<Does anyone else know of this?  If so, could you post the ingredients and 
ratios please!  

This is from an old saved e-mail about the Jerry Baker tonics.  The only 
topic I know that starts a faster flame war than discussing PT lumber for 
raised beds.  I offer it for informational purposes only.  It will do no good 
to say I've used his all purpose tonic for years and had great success with 
it.  I find the "bug" tonic not as good.  Jerry Baker has two tonics, one for 
feeding, one for bugs and disease.  You make a master mix than dilute as 
needed, usually using a 20 gallon hose end sprayer.

My hint, go to the cheap store in town and buy two 2 1/2 gallon red plastic 
gas containers and use then for storing your master mix.  I have a different 
shaped gas container for lawn mower gas, plus I have the containers marked 
for the tonics.

The Jerry Baker all purpose tonic.

1 can of beer (alcoholic or non alcoholic) - yeast enzymes
1 can cola (reg, not diet) -  a source of sugar
1 cup household ammonia - a source of nitrogen
1 cup apple juice - ethylene gas to help set fruit and flowers
1 cup liquid lawn food - a vitamin pill for your lawn
1 cup Murphy's oil soap (New Change) or liquid dish soap - gives your plants 
a bath so it washes off pollution so photosynthesis improves also it breaks 
surface tension so penetration takes place.

This makes a master mix and is applied at the rate of 
Teaspoon to the quart
Tablespoon to the gallon
Cup to 20 gallons

Using a 20 gallon sprayer is the easiest way to apply the tonic, put a cup in 
the jar, fill it with water and spray everything growing in sight; once every 
3 weeks before 12 AM

You can use this tonic for house plants at the rate of 3 oz per gallon.

The bug tonic is 

1 cup brown antiseptic mouth wash (Listerene) - a bacteria stat
1 cup Chamomile tea* - a fungus stat
1 Cup human urine (PP) - a repellent
1 Cup Murphy's oil soap 
1 Cup tobacco juice** - contact poison

If a stronger potion is needed, add fruit tree spray at 25% of recommended 
rate.

* Take 4 tea bags and steep in a cup of boiling water over night.

**Get a pouch of Red Mad Chewing tobacco.  Reach in with your thumb and three 
fingers and grab.  Take what comes out and put it in the toe of a nylon 
stocking and put In a pint of boiling water and leave it there.  This stuff 
stinks and never goes bad.

Apply as above and spray every two weeks in the evening.


Ed in SW Illinois
Let the flame wars begin


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