Re: Insects and Jerry Baker - Reply

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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 02:06:39 EDT From: WHTROS@aol.com

>>	I've been using his Mole Recipe for 15 years.<<

I've heard other good reports on Baker's mole recipe. I don't doubt that some 
of Baker's remedies are effective.  But I also think that many of them are 
quite expensive to use and that some of them are downright dangerous.  

>> But Safer's sure has capitalized on his dish soap remedy!<<

HIS dish soap remedy?  People were using dish soap (and other home remedies) 
on gardens long before anyone ever heard of Jerry Baker.  I'd say it is Jerry 
Baker who is doing the capitalizing.  

While they work on the same basic principle, insecticidal soap and dish soap 
are not the same.  The active ingredient in insecticidal soap is specially 
formulated potassium salts of fatty acids.  

While we're on the subject of home remedies, Kemberly asked about the effects 
of sugar and epsom salts.  Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate, a good source 
of magnesium for roses and other plants that like magnesium, or for soils 
that are deficient. Table sugar is sucrose, but I don't know why that would 
be used in gardening.  Hope someone else will answer that one.

Many people also put banana peels on their roses.  Bananas are high in 
potassium and I am guessing that is the reason.  Does anyone know for sure?

--Janis

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