This is still Life Away from Keyboard week. Here for your ponderation is an article from the Telegraph:
Women gardeners' voices speed up growth of tomato plants much more than men's, it found.
In an experiment run over a month, they found that tomato plants grew up to two inches taller if they were serenaded by the dulcet tones of a female rather than a male.
How many of you talk to your plants, inside or out?
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Oh I do!! Bunches. Inside, outside. Oh yeah. I'm shameless with my pretties.
ReplyDeleteI don't grow anything indoors. And outdoors, well, the birds do all the singing around here...
ReplyDeleteI sing the theme to 'Gilligan's Island' to all of my plants. Yes, I get enough to can every fall, those fools. A three hour tour my ass!
ReplyDeletePLANTS. Stupid, tricky, spy plants. Probably telepathic, too. I DO NOT TRUST THEM.
ReplyDeleteI am hungover & sleepy.
I talk to our plants (all outdoors). Not only do I talk to them, I name them. For instance, I call our juniper tree George and our juniper bush Nancy. I make sure to tell even the smallest plant how wonderful it is.
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we use telepathy with each other...
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read that book first published in the 70's - "The Secret Life of Plants?" In addition to reporting on various studies using things like lie detectors to show that plants have ESP, it also talks about the "Harmonic Life of Plants." It cites studies in which corn plants produced more when Gershwin music was played in the field vs no music. They later tested various frequencies of sound and determined that higher frequencies worked best. And it mentions other experiments - among them a woman - Mrs. Retallack who published a book called, "The Sound of Music and Plants" in 1973. She did many experiments with various music that indicated that plants do no like acid rock music - they cringe from it and don't grow well. They prefer classical or jazz or Indian sitar. Country western did nothing.
ReplyDeleteI have the book, but never did read the whole thing. But it's intriguing stuff.
I'm guessing that The Prince of Wales may have read that book 30 years ago. Why is it that people have to rediscover things over and over instead of learning it the first time? Why aren't farmers playing high frequency vibrations in the field instead of using toxic crap? I think there was something in that book about music that deterred pests as well.
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