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The garden grew overnight!

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Yesterday I told you about how lightening puts free nitrogen in the air and that often after a good storm that includes lightening you’ll notice that your plants have grown.

Well, the storm that I was referring to occurred about about 4 a.m. on Thursday the 10th of May, and here it is the 11th of May and when I look out at my garden everything is a mass of green and or blooms.

I wish I had a before and after picture to show you of my messy garden. You see, I haven’t finished trimming, pruning and pulling out all the dead tangle of old plants that died off last fall so there’s lots of graying dead plant stems and leaves throughout half the garden. Up until today that was clearly visible in many areas of the garden but when I look outside today the lush green vegetation of the super charged plants are hiding a good portion of it.

I went out and took a photo at about 2 pm this afternoon .. you can see in the left flower bed that I still have a lot of work to do to make it look really nice … but the plants sure have grown in just one day.

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Lightening, free nitrogen and plant growth

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All day yesterday I was expecting rain. The weather station said it was going to rain in the evening but it never did. You know when it finally did rain? 4 in the morning!

What a storm! Thunder, Lightning and torrents of rain … we need it. Our garden was pretty dry and I hadn’t watered for a week or so because we’d been expecting rain that never materialized.

Personally I don’t really like thunder and lightening storms. I don’t like the crash of thunder, nor the flash of lightening, but for my gardens sake, every time I hear that we are supposed to get rain I always hope for a few flashes of lightening in the area.

Why?

Well, lightening puts free nitrogen into the air. Have you ever wondered why your garden always looks so much better have a thunder shower than just a simple rain or even watering with the garden hose? It’s all those free nitrogen molecules in the air. our gardens get a heavy dose of the food that they need to green up and grow – that’s why the plants always look so much better the day after a storm and often seem to grow a few inches right afterwards too.

Humor me … the next time you’re expecting a storm in your area take a good look at your garden or your neighbors garden if you don’t have one of your own. Take note of how the plants are looking and perhaps even how tall they are. The day after the storm, and perhaps even the day after that take a look at the garden again and see if the plants don’t look healthier, stronger and perhaps even bigger.

Rain Dance

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I’m probably going to pay for saying this, but does anyone else need some rain? It’s been so dry here over the last couple of weeks. My poor plants are thirsty.

Yeah, yeah, now that I’ve said that it will rain for the next two weeks right? Then I’ll be complaining that there’s too much rain.

I guess that I’ve been doing a good enough job watering. At least half of my roses are in full bloom and smelling up the neighborhood with their lovely scent. That one branch on the rose that I call the monster, Antique ’89, has reached approximately 18 feet in height. It’s just not supposed to get that big!

I guess I’m going to have to go out and do a rain dance or something. I have another batch of alfalfa tea brewing in two large garbage cans in my driveway. It’s time to put that out on the garden, but I’d love to do it when we’re expecting some rain, preferably a good storm. Did you know that lightning puts nitrogen in the air, and that’s why plants always seem to grow after a good storm? It’s not just the rain, it’s the nitrogen in the air. Well, I want some of that, and some good rain for when I spread that smelly alfalfa tea on the garden.

If anyone has some rain to spare send it over here!

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