"Jerry Baker" (born 1931) is an American author, entrepreneur, public speaker, and product spokesperson who has written numerous books on gardening, home hints, and health topics. He is best known as America’s Master Gardener, and for creating his world-famous DIY tonics using common household products like beer, baby shampoo, castor oil, and mouthwash.

Baker began his career in the 1960s as an undercover cop in Detroit, Michigan, posing as a gardener, tree trimmer, landscaper, and seed salesman. He left the police force and eventually went to work as a horticulture buyer for S. S. Kresge Corporation (which later became Kmart Corporation). Baker’s interest in gardening lead him to local radio and TV appearances in the Detroit area. He eventually became a frequent guest on Dinah Shore’s daytime TV show, Dinah’s Place. The exposure he received from his Dinah’s Place appearances prompted him to write his first best-selling book, Plants Are Like People, in 1972. A full-length record album by the same name was released shortly after the book was certified as a bestseller. Baker also began the national craze of talking to your plants with the publication of his second best-selling book, Talk to Your Plants, the following year, in 1973.

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We are just starting that process. Tom and I have already had some discussions. We'll have some more. He's on the road recruiting right now. We'll sit down and we'll look at the year. He'll give me his opinion on what worked and what didn't work. I'll give him my opinion.

It's not going to be a bone of contention on Tommy's part, I wouldn't think, until next year. As any coach would, he'll say, 'When I recruit a kid, they're going to ask me if I'm going to be here four years.' Next year is when (those discussions) would probably be.

We have to be aware that we don't over punish our athletes just because they are athletes.

They have a lot of similar interests and successes that we have, and similar challenges to what we face here at the College of Charleston.

I hope this will give a chance for Western to develop a very strong horticulture department.

They can take their students out and not just talk about it in a classroom, they can go out and actually work with the plants and the shrubs and the trees.

It's no different when we're 25-2 or we're 17-11.

They have a bigger staff than we do, more people, more resources. But we do a lot of good things here, and I'm very happy here. I don't look very often for jobs. It's not something that I go out every month or every quarter and do. But this one, I think, is a pretty good match for my abilities.