This is Weed and this is Wack with WOWDY Gardens. We are an organic gardening show that talks about all aspects of gardening I was just saying earlier just caught caught me there. It’s amazing what copper does and that’s what I was saying because Today we’re gonna talk about the idea of coppers isn’t police cops are coming No copper copper You know how great how copper
Helm my works the cops are coming coppers Yeah, copper But we’re talking about how it’s it maybe it’s possible that coiled copper wire around a Doyle stuck in the ground could collect Ions From the atmosphere and send them down to the ground and get the roots to grow more which is gonna better for your food now I don’t know is this a why wives tale well
I hadn’t heard about it, but you know I’ve noticed is really attractive copper Doyle like things is that what they are? Yeah gardening stores, and I never knew what they are They’re actually little antennas in the theory as you plug it into the soil and that picks up electromagnetic You know water air through the air a charge a tiny tiny charge and it gets into the soil and enhances The growth of your roots and your plants I did a real quick
Little bit of research on this and ran it by a science friend of mine Nothing in peer reviewed on this, but there’s two scientists who? Put together a machine to do all of this and they did their experiment. They didn’t use the copper They use a machine to charge the soil that that collected the energy from the ambient air as well But it was an expensive machine and they did their experiment with peas and they had great
success in germination and in What they produced with their peas, but they had to plug the machine in or what I’m not sure on that, but all I got from my scientist buddy was that It did made what what these guys scientists did even if it worked It’s just not practical for the back for the back yard garden and he said he he’s interested in the Doyle thing, but he He suspects it probably nothing to it, but couldn’t
harm anything one of the guys I like on the web is The gardening professor and he says it’s a bunch of you know what? And don’t bother with it. Well, it could be a husband’s tale not a wife’s because my wife just thinks it’s it’s a bunch of Well, you know, that’s what I liked that when you first told me about this You know one thing I love about gardening is I love folklore and gardening is a great source of folklore a lot of it is
Real wisdom and really works. This is probably a case of something that may not work But you were the one who told me when I complained about slugs one time the copper wire mesh will Repel them repel them and I looked it up and sure enough the copper wire mesh from ambient Atmosphere creates a static charge. It’s enough to a tiny one. That’s enough to make the Slug not want to crawl over the mesh
There’s real signs behind that years ago. I knew a guy who grew Escargo in his basement closet and he did it with five gallon buckets that were stacked on their sides slightly Around the edge of the doorway and the floor so this other things wouldn’t climb out
Successfully was but as soon as I heard about copper lined doorway I said that’s it and also You know if you’re an investor the price of copper is constantly growing up You buy a ton of these things and you can watch your wealth grow in the backyard. That’s right Well, they stopped they stopped making copper pennies in 1982 right And of course it’s illegal to melt down your your coinage But the takeaway from this is those things that you are very attractive
Copper always looks nice in the garden. It does copper does Deter slugs, but you have to use it differently and it can’t harm your plants at all and The way you should get one stick it in see if it works. See if it works. Oh, yeah, we’re gonna do an experiment or not We’re gonna do an experiment piece. We’re trying to do an experiment with something and they have to and the experiment the plants have to they can’t be too close They can’t be right next to each other because you and they have to be in separate
Bins electrical charge But same type of soil and everything same seed batch and everything Yep, same size. We might have to wait till next spring Yeah, well, hey, I find this bit of folklore just fascinating Hope you did too and this is weed signing off from Wadi gardens and this is whack from Wadi gardens by the way to come radio org 94.3 LP
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