Re: Insects and Jerry Baker - Reply
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- Subject: Re: Insects and Jerry Baker - Reply
- From: T*
- Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 19:39:27 -0400
Don't know about the sugar, but the beer would have had any organisms
killed in the brewing or pasteurization process, so I can't see any
benefits from it.
On 6/19/99 7:24 PM Amy (a4sberg@swbell.net) said:
>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.
Tom Miller
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