On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:04:51 +0100, "Sue & Bob Hobden"
wrote:


"Alan wrote in message
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Despite being considered an eccentricity, it also works to
chat to your crops , even- occasionally - to threaten them.
Agreed! I don't actually speak to plants, but they respond to thought
transference if they are given a chance to. I don't threaten them
either, but Joan and I have noticed that if we talk about an
unsatisfactory plant in its presence, it will often respond in the way
we wish it to. There's no scientific or logical explanation for this
effect but it has happened in our garden too often for co-incidence.

How many times have I said to Sue "that useless plant just has to go" and a
week later it's flowering etc.,
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Sue and Bob.
Some years ago I had growing in my back garden
a "Laxton Superb" apple tree which always gave great promise
but little substance. In front of my friends and neighbours - at a
barbecue in said named garden - I had a few words with the lazy tree
indicating that he/she ought to 'extract a branch.' or face the
consequences.

The following year I needed to use five support posts to prevent
branches from snapping under the weight of the delicious fruit.
My neighbours were very impressed. I was very smug. The tree
was unimpressed, and the following year it was felled in a storm.

Perhaps there's a moral there somewhere?

Regards
John
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