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Comments (5)I know you can make it yourself......I use a variation of the mix, that I find quite helpful. The operative ingredients are the beer and the sugar. My belief (although I do not know this) is that he's changed up the sugar source, because in the last few years I've listened to him, he's recommending molasses, rather than soda pop. More concentrated (thus cheaper) sugar. In any event, here's the recipe, as I use it, for an acre lot (your lot may be smaller, and you may want to wind down the sizes. Absolutely, precise measurement is not required). Into a five gallon paint bucket, I put: a. 4 or 5 cans of beer (and if I have any wine left over, I just pour in the wine). b. 4 litres soda pop (not diet: you want the sugar. FWIW, grape and strawberry have more sugar than cola). K-Mart's cheap 3 liter of soda is perfect. c. 2 gallons of household ammonia. d. 1/2 cup of cheap dish soap: the pink stuff off of KMart's shelves. Try your darndest to get one that does NOT say 'antibacterial'. e. A gallon of Gatorade (or whatever that big jug of it is, at the grocery store). Mix it all together, and run it through your hose-end sprayer (The weed B Gone sprayer is perfect for it) at 4oz. to the gallon. Spray everything to the point of runoff, (not drowning) and move along, spray something else. But spray the lawn, the flowers, the shrubs, everything. They'll all love it. The sugar is good for the little critters in the soil: they live on sugars, and you just gave them some. The beer has enzymes, which is how it got to be beer. These same enzymes (along with the sugar) operate to destroy thatch in the lawn. The ammonia is just nitrogen. A little snack for the lawn and leaves. The Gatorade provides 'trace nutrients', such as zinc, etc. Athletes need these nutrients, in small traces, and so do your plants and lawn. The dish soap makes everything else work well together, and destroys surface tension on the plant leaves, so the mixture is absorbed more easily. Unless you're a chemist: in that case, the dish soap is a 'surfactant', and makes everything work well. I spray my lawn about twice a year. Sometimes three times. It's not a HUGE amount of anything, and won't take the place of a regular fertilizer application. But for a little snack, for a little appetizer to keep the little critters in the lawn doing what they do best, I find it quite useful. As well as cheap....See MoreWanted: Jerry Baker's Flower Power
Comments (0)If anyone has a copy of Jerry Baker's book to spare, or copies of his recipes, please let me know... I need to update my memory in print, LOL! Thanks in advance :o) Debbie...See Morejerry baker formula
Comments (9)Here are the one's I found in this book. Use the "tea" made from above and. cutworm chaser 1 c murphy's soap 1 c tobacco tea 1 c antiseptic mouthwash warm water Hopper repeller 1 c murphys soap 1 c tobacco tea Fall wash down for bugs 1 c tobacco tea 1/2 c baby shampoo 6 tsp fruit tree spray 4 tbsp antiseptic mouthwash 2 tsp witch hazel Shrub pest-preventer 1 c baby shampoo 1 c antiseptic mouthwash 1 c tobacco tea 1 c chamomile tea water flower defender 1 c dish soap 1 c tobacco tea 1 c antiseptic mouthwash 1/4 c hot sauce warm water Stress reliever (lawns) 1 c baby shampoo 1 c antiseptic mouthwash 1 c tobacco tea 3/4 c weak tea (used tea bag and dish soap) 1/4 c ammonia I hope one of these are the one you need I can't see anything about those type of bugs in this book. There are a couple more, but they are for fungus etc. Bonnie...See Moreskunks
Comments (1)Forget Jerry. You'll have them forever. If you choose not to shoot them; you will need to live with them at your house. Unfortunately, they will start to attract new skunk families to your yard. Forget the Jerry stuff. You or your friends need to finish the job - or you are stuck with them forever....See Morearkansas girl
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