It's not the electricity that makes plants so green after a good
thunderstorm. The lightning ionizes nitrogen into a form that is very
readily taken up by plants once it's washed into the soil.

M. REed


Roger Whitehead wrote:
A gardener I know reckons that rain falling during a thunderstorm will
carry an electrical charge that's especially beneficial to the plants it
falls on, even waking them from a kind of dormancy.

Sounds like rubbish to me but I'm no scientist. Are there any facts for or
against the notion?

Roger