Jerry Baker’s Key to Success ...
Talk To Your Plants
And Beat Your Trees
Jerry Baker, America’s
master gardener and this
country's most famous plant
expert Luther Burbank,
talked to a near-capacity
crowd Tuesday night in the
Manheim Township High
School. Baker’s visit here
was sponsored by Stauffer’s
of Kissel Hill, Lititz.
“The biggest problem in
home gardening is that
people want the end result
without the work, “Baker
told the group. They want
their beans and tomatoes
and com to sprout overnight
and bear pre-packaged
vegetables ready for the
freezer. To be a successful
home gardener, you need
pride, patience and per
sistence.’*
In his hour-long presen
tation on plant care and
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propogation. Baker rattled
off helpful hints and in
teresting sidelights much too
quickly for this reporter, at
least, to write down. He
believes in talking to plants,
(didn’t Moses talk to a
burning bush? he asks), and
beating fruit trees to
stimulate their growth. He
uses a length of rubber hose,
an “Oklahoma persuader”,
to increase the size of his
apples.
Baker uses onions, mint
extract, coffee, tea and
tobacco juice in his gar
dening program, and he uses
old pantyhose for everything
from soaking seeds in tea to
staking tomatoes.
Prior to his performance
at Manheim Township,
Baker met with represen
tatives of local newspapers
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in Stauffer’s conference
room. He had just arrived
from Pittsburgh, where he
did three TV shows. Con
stantly on the move, Baker
travels some 5000 miles a
week, and is home in Troy,
Michigan, only on weekends,
when, one must assume, he
tends his own garden.
A life-long insomniac.
Baker sleeps only three
hours a night. He has written
16 books on plants and talked
to millions of people about
growing them. He appears
every week on the NBC-TV
show “Dinah’s Place”, and
has just completed taping 72
segments of has own TV
series- which will go into
syndication in the near
future. Jerry Baker is a
walking encyclopedia of
plant lore blessed, as he
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Jerry Baker, America's Master Gardener
says, . .with total recall dynamo who has amassed a
about agriculture, but I can’t fortune since the day, when
remember ray own at the age of 12, he first
telephone number.” became interested in plants.
In addition to being a plant “I was walking near my
wizard, Baker is a business home,” he said, “when my
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eye was caught by the glitter
of many panes of glass. It
was a greenhouse, and I
couldn’t resist putting rocks
through it. Well, the man
who owned the greenhouse
could have done a lot of
things to me, but he did
something wonderful. He
made me work in his
greenhouse, at 10-cents an
hour, picking glass out of
flats until I had paid for the
glass I had broken. I grew to
love plants in that
greenhouse.”
On the strengths of his
consuming passion for plants
and his business acumen,
Jerry Baker has gone from a
Detroit policeman and part
time seed salesman to
become a man of wealth, an
author, and a man who’s
turned down scores of
honorary degrees. How does
it feel to be famous? What
does be think of being a star?
“Well,” he says, “on my way
to the airport for this last
trip, I still had to take the
garbage out.”
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