Jerry Baker – Garden Tips from
TV Show.
Planning your vegetable garden
Choose a spot with full sun, rich soil, and good drainage.
Size - Depends on how many people you are feeding. 10x10 ft for 2 people- 15x15 for 3, 50x50
for 10 people
Draw in your garden on paper
West is corn and sunflowers—tall. Cucumbers
and vines—short plants are East
Always have more crops coming in rotating at different times of year. Don’t leave any space empty.
Spring
Plant seeds that are fresh. Look on package with date of package. Stick
into the refrigerator to fool them into thinking they have gone through a winter.
Always wash your hands and pots before you handle seeds…using
Bleach and liquid dish soap.
Before plant seeds, put Lipton tea in cheesecloth and steep in boiled water. Cool and soak seeds in a weak tea solution.
To plant seeds, take a Styrofoam cup and fill with soil to which you have added 2 T of Epsom
salts. Spray with a weak solution of tea solution. In Styrofoam cup, make hole
with pencil and press in seed. Don’t touch seed with finger, but use tweezers. Then mist soil with 2 drops of dish soap,1 drop of whiskey and 2 drops of ammonia
in your weak tea.
Put cups in a plastic container. Cover with a towel and keep mist sprayed and put on a heating
pad or a warm room for 4 days. On the 6th day, put into the South
or west window and put 60 Watt grow light over plants from 3-11 PM. When seedlings
have 2 leaves transplant into a clay pot.
Then spray with ¼ tsp fish emulsion, 1 drop whiskey and
2 drops dish soap in one quart of water.
Soil Preparation
Put boiling water in containers with soil to kill bacteria in soil. Let cool.
Make a soil mixture of 1/3 sand, 1/3 clay, and 1/3 promix (organic material).
Containers need no fertilizer, because it will burn the plants. For each pail, put in 1/4 cup Epsom salts, four egg shells fine ground and microwaved (which give calcium,
which we don’t need if we use our NM soil) and ¼ c coffee grounds.
For 50 square feet gardens, use 2 lbs lime, ¼ lb Epsom salts and 5 lbs garden food.
In ground 100 square feet surface, use 25 lb. Fertilizer, 1 lb. Sugar, and ½ lb. Epsom salt
Soil energizer - 1 can of beer (enzymes), 1 c dish soap (diarrhea to bugs), 1 c. mouthwash (kill
bad bacteria), 1 T. instant tea, and 1 can cola (sugar). Put in a garden hose/fertilizer
type sprayer so the ingredients are diluted. Over spray the soil. Re-spray a
week later. Then plant.
Planting
Tomatoes – dig a hole, 2 feet deep. In
the bottom of the hole, put in 3-4 inches of dried broken up corn cobs, a pinch of hair, and the center panel, (absorbing
part) of a diaper, in bottom of hole. Then put a hollow galvanized pipe in the
hole so the top sticks out of the ground for feeding and water. Put tomato plant
deep in soil below first leaves. Feed through tube.
Frost Protection – black and white newspaper put over plant. Grocery
bags and put over plants. Large areas, floating row cover, like gauze. Cut bottom out of plastic container and put over plants. Or
cut side out and put around to protect from wind.
Cutworm protection—put center rolls of paper towel and toilet paper around bottom couple inches of stalks of
plant at soil level.
All purpose tonic – 1 cup liquid dish soap, 1 c. antiseptic mouthwash and 1 c. chewing tobacco juice (natural pesticide). Put in a garden hose/fertilizer type sprayer so the ingredients are diluted.
Compost soup, - weeds and soak in a bucket of water and leave for a week and use that to water
plants.
To control fungi – vinegar 2 T in 1 Qt. Of water
in a spray bottle.
Tomato growth – mulch soil with clippings.
Summer
Insects – keep
plants clean and well fed and won’t have so many insects
All purpose clean up tonic - to be sprayed after 7:00 p.m. – 1 c mouth wash, 1 c dish
soap, 1 cup chewing tobacco juice, with large pinch of chewing tobacco, which you have put in cheesecloth and steeped in hot
boiled water over night. Put in a garden hose/fertilizer type sprayer so the
ingredients are diluted.
Also add garlic water and cayenne pepper with above solution and put into hose sprayer. Spray after 7:00 pm.
Weed Control
Use mulch – to retain water and holds down weeds.
Can use black and white newspaper, sprinkle on small amount of diatomatious earth, put
½ c of Epsom salt for 50 sq. feet into the soil. Put grass clippings over
newspaper.
For end of roll newspaper, go to New Mexican and right inside door, you can get the end rolls
of unprinted newsprint to use on beds.
Regular Feedings
Every three weeks before noon, use all purpose green-up tonic.
1 can beer, 1 c ammonia, ½ c liquid dish soap (gives bugs diarrhea). ½ c lawn food,
½ c clear corn syrup. Put in a garden hose/fertilizer type sprayer so the ingredients are diluted. Plants ingest during day hours, grow at night.
Proper Watering
Watering
should be plant personal. Water early in morning.
Water with a water nozzle and flood it. Can put water and fertilizer into
milk containers with holes in bottom to side of plants. Clay pots with gravel
partially buried next to plants can also be used to receive water and to put dry tonics in. Plants close enough to shade each
other. Use soaker hoses under the mulch,
Make sure land is level so water won’t run off.
Staking and Tying
To super charge the atmosphere of your garden and to attract the static electricity of the
atmosphere and the nitrogen in the air - Put wooden stakes and tie
copper wiring along stakes. In the middle of the wires, put nylons along the
wiring. This will encourage plant growth.
On vining crops, put wire grids to keep plants off the ground.
Tie plants with nylon to attract static electricity…just below a branch.
Fall
Frost Protection - repeat what we did in spring
To protect grown tomato plants from frost, put sheet plastic over cages…cut top of plastic
so can open the top in the morning and close at night.
Clean-up time
Disease occurs when garden is not cleaned up, so clean up.
Use same solution as in spring to spray over soil
Dry soil energizer – 25 lbs of gypsum, 5 lbs of garden food, spread over the soil and
cover with grass clippings and spray with 1 can cola and 1 c liquid dish soap , ½ c. ammonia and spray over clippings. Put liquid ingredients in a garden hose/fertilizer type sprayer so the ingredients
are diluted. 7-10 days later, till under.
