Re: Insects and Jerry Baker - Reply

I'm trying to catch up on my email and didn't see anyone answer the question
about why to add sugar.

When I moved into my house, it had just been built and the land scraped clean.
(Not my choice, but already done by the time I saw the lot).  The owner of the
organic lawn service I hired suggested I spread sugar and beer around the
shrubbery I had been planting.  He told me that the land needed to get the
microorganisms back and the beer would add them and the sugar would feed them
until things got back to normal.  It sounded pretty strange, but I figured that
it wouldn't hurt anything.  So, on one shrub border, I spread the sugar and beer
along half of it, leaving the other half alone.  I treated the whole bed the same
for the next year - same fertilizer and mulch.  A year later, I was looking out
the window and noticed that the shrubs on the left were significantly bigger than
the ones on the right.  The only difference?  The beer and sugar had been put
down on the left.
                                                                        Amy


LONDE@aol.com wrote:

> 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.
>



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