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Plants Grow Faster With Blast Of Heavy Metal Music Says Radio Gardener
Garden guru Chris Beardshaw is recommending a new technique for bigger blooms – blast your plants with heavy metal.
The broadcaster and gardening expert reveals on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time on Friday that a constant diet of Black Sabbath worked wonders on a greenhouse full of plants, but exposure to Sir Cliff Richard killed every plant in a horticultural experiment.
Black Sabbath, led by singer Ozzy Osbourne, are seen as pioneers of heavy metal with tracks such as Iron Man and Paranoid. Beardshaw says using rock music as a nutrient appears to create larger flowers and they are more disease-resistant.
The test came about because one of his horticultural students wanted to write a dissertation based on the effects of music on plants.
"We set up four glasshouses with different sorts of music in to see what happened to the plants.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/19/black-sabbath-radio-gardener-chris-beardshaw
The broadcaster and gardening expert reveals on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time on Friday that a constant diet of Black Sabbath worked wonders on a greenhouse full of plants, but exposure to Sir Cliff Richard killed every plant in a horticultural experiment.
Black Sabbath, led by singer Ozzy Osbourne, are seen as pioneers of heavy metal with tracks such as Iron Man and Paranoid. Beardshaw says using rock music as a nutrient appears to create larger flowers and they are more disease-resistant.
The test came about because one of his horticultural students wanted to write a dissertation based on the effects of music on plants.
"We set up four glasshouses with different sorts of music in to see what happened to the plants.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/19/black-sabbath-radio-gardener-chris-beardshaw
I wonder how'd they respond with some Dio era Black Sabbath?
