The gift if the gab.

[mikey3000]

Lately I've started talking to my plants and I think they really appreciate it. They are doing much better than usual and I swear they are happier. Am I nuts? Do you talk to your plants?

 

[Kahaih]

I cuss a bit when the frozen carrots clump up in the bag, otherwise, no.

 

[Cormac135]

No, yet more quackery.

 

[peeonme]

I talk to my penis and it grows...

 

[72-Jay]

Do you talk to your plants?

I do not.
The plants are in my bedroom, there's also a stereo in the bedroom, & I frequently have it on when I'm home & awake...so they get music

 

[Rickrock]

Not now. Years ago I tried talking to my plants, but it didn't seem to matter and it was just a fad that I gave up.

 

[medic1]

I swear when i am weeding.

Does that count?

 

[rareboy]

It is nice that you finally have found some friends.

 

[mikey3000]

Yeah, I'm thinking of putting them in my will.

 

[rareboy]

I thought you were going to try to buy off your kids so they would think kindly of you, but then blow the rest just on yourself....but leaving some for plants is a good thing too.

Coincidentally, since you brought it up in your own thread, this year we are planting another 17,000 trees, bringing the total up to about 60,000 over the last decade. We are also leaving a good chunk of our estate to protect them and the conservation easement we have on our property.

You should tell your plants about your intended largesse.

They will appreciate it.

 

[opinterph]

One of my high school buddies did an experiment for biology class which involved planting two sets of corn seeds. He exposed one of the sets of seeds to soft gentle music and the other to hard rock music. All other elements of their care was the same. The corn plants exposed to hard rock music grew bigger and faster.

 

[Kahaih]

/\ Probably because he was more inclined to hang out with them to enjoy their music, get them high, and exchange stoner philosophies with them.

 

[NotHardUp1]

No, they were struggling to get big enough to march across the field and kill the annoying source of the noise, just like in Day of the Triffids.

All plants move, but they don't usually pull themselves out of the ground and chase you.

Mikey, I'm sorry to break it to you, but the plants have just be using you. They are attracted to you for the carbon dioxide you provide. Sorry, but they are what they are. It's like D to them, and you got it.

And, be grateful to Rareboy for his providence. Not only is he reminding you that he will die a couple of generations ahead of you, but that the air will be fresher for it not just in metaphorical and abstract ways. What's not to love?

 

[72-Jay]

this year we are planting another 17,000 trees, bringing the total up to about 60,000 over the last decade

That's allot of trees

One of my high school buddies did an experiment for biology class which involved planting two sets of corn seeds. He exposed one of the sets of seeds to soft gentle music and the other to hard rock music. All other elements of their care was the same. The corn plants exposed to hard rock music grew bigger and faster.

I guess my houseplants like it when its a day where I load up the CD player with rock/metal CD's then...

 

[Vannie]

What do you say to a wandering jew?

 

[rareboy]

That's allot of trees


I guess my houseplants like it when its a day where I load up the CD player with rock/metal CD's then...

It is over halfway to our goal of 100,000.....It takes a lot of trees to fill up the 100 acres we have allocated for restoration of bushland. I am not sure that we will be around to plant the last 20,000 because these will be the final infill and fence row plantings.

I realize though, that the planting crews usually don't play music out loud when they are getting the whips into the ground. Maybe that would help push them along.

 

[NotHardUp1]

What do you say to a wandering jew?

"How did you get here? Did you decide it was time to 'let your people go'?"

 

[Alistair]

It is over halfway to our goal of 100,000.....It takes a lot of trees to fill up the 100 acres we have allocated for restoration of bushland. I am not sure that we will be around to plant the last 20,000 because these will be the final infill and fence row plantings.

I realize though, that the planting crews usually don't play music out loud when they are getting the whips into the ground. Maybe that would help push them along.

Whipping the workers RB? That doesn't sound like you. I think they'd get more work done if you just played some music for them

 

[mikey3000]

It is over halfway to our goal of 100,000.....It takes a lot of trees to fill up the 100 acres we have allocated for restoration of bushland. I am not sure that we will be around to plant the last 20,000 because these will be the final infill and fence row plantings.

I realize though, that the planting crews usually don't play music out loud when they are getting the whips into the ground. Maybe that would help push them along.

What you don't realize is that Perpetual Nature Conservancies are totally unenforceable. They get overturned every day. In Oakville and Burlington, everything north of Highway 5 was supposed to be a conservancy. Look at it now . Google it, or better yet, read your deed and see for your self.

 

[NotHardUp1]

On the other hand, Mikey, The Nature Conservancy can and does maintain large and small nature preserves, totalling millions of acres in North America alone. Many donors have provided their lands which are either in fact conserved as important or are sold and the proceeds converted into purchasing more critical properties.

TNC both owns properties outright as well as leases lands to manage them.

It is simple to attend a local chapter and SEE the land that IS being conserved.

So, whether Rareboy's preservation is independent or part of a larger organization, there is plenty of proof that the conservancy is being upheld in Canada, in North and South American, and abroad.