Re: Comments on Jerry Baker America's Master Gardener

I do not know why PBS still airs this crapola.  Some years ago, I
spent some time writing to both PBS and my local PBS station,
protesting the airing of this show; using the same reasons you
mention.    Not only does this charlatan recommend using nicotine
solutions, on the show I saw, he recommended storing them in used
soft drink containers!  I've been waiting to read/hear that some
child died as a result of drinking this brew, but if it's happened
anywhere, it's been kept from the major media.

Net result or my heartfelt (and I thought cogent) protest:  1 canned
letter from PBS, repeated identically from the local station.  I
responded to both and quite a bit later, received the identical
canned letters back again under different signatures.

My conclusion:  PBS does not care one teeny, tiny bit about their
viewers except when they want to relieve them of their money and, it
would appear, that Jerry Baker's Medicine Show must do that or they
wouldn't keep repeating it.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Al Krismer <alkrismer@fuse.net>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Last night our local PBS station aired their occasional on- the-
air
> fund drive . They showed a two part show on Jerry Baker and also
ahd him
> as a guest to answer  viewers' questions.
> 
> I am disappointed that some people  believe the snake oil remedies
which
> Baker recommends to the American gardening public. Some of the
'tonics'
> he recommends are down right dangerous, especially his nicotine
based
> "tonics".  His use of ammonia as a source of nitrogen is misleading
and
> simplistic. Also he replied to a viewer's questions about the
cicadas
> which will invade our region in May that dormant spray will kill
the
> cicada eggs. By the time you can spray with dormant spray the eggs
will
> long be hatched out.
> 
> I don't know why a reputable PBS station would continue to air this
> plant quack.
> 
> I think the local PBS station still airs his shows, but I wonder if
its
> shown on other public broadcasting stations in the country.
> 
> Al Krismer
> Cincinnati Ohio
> Zone 6
> Crocus and daffs are blooming.
> 
>
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