Did you know that thunder storms are extremely beneficial to the garden? Our atmosphere contains about 75% Nitrogen but that is in an insoluble state. Lightning strikes convert atmospheric Nitrogen into NO2 (Nitrogen Dioxide) which is why plants go greener and grow faster after a thunderstorm as NO2 is a form of soluble nitrogen that plants love. John H
I agree. As a child (I was a keen gardener even then) it was something I'd notice. Only years later did I read the same info as you (possibly from the same source - The Reader's Digest Encyclopaedia of the Garden - which was my bible back in the 1960's). It does add up, but I'd guess the effect would be fairly localized to where the lightning occurred.
We've not had a single drop of rain here in many weeks. Even several of my sage plants have died due to lack of water. I've got plenty of bedding plants still waiting to be planted, but the ground is like concrete. So some thunder and rain would be extremely welcome!
Billericay - Essex
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Sounds very much like me: in 1953 I was 9 when my parents moved to High Wycombe and had an allotment. I was encouraged to grow a few things in a portion of the plot they let me use and my love of gardening grew from there. When I got married in 1966 we moved to Bristol and our home has a reasonable size garden which has provided us with fruit & veg these last 57 years. John. H
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As a child (I was a keen gardener even then) it was something I'd notice. Only years later did I read the same info as you (possibly from the same source - The Reader's Digest Encyclopaedia of the Garden - which was my bible back in the 1960's).
It does add up, but I'd guess the effect would be fairly localized to where the lightning occurred.
We've not had a single drop of rain here in many weeks.
Even several of my sage plants have died due to lack of water.
I've got plenty of bedding plants still waiting to be planted, but the ground is like concrete.
So some thunder and rain would be extremely welcome!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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