Starch
Can you feed plants starch?
Is it good? My friend says his mum used it on plants and it was great. The water drained from the spagetti, or water from boiled potato |
There is no benefit to the plant watering it with starchy water.
Plants don't metabolize starch. "l" loi wrote in message u... Can you feed plants starch? Is it good? My friend says his mum used it on plants and it was great. The water drained from the spagetti, or water from boiled potato |
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Can you feed plants starch? Is it good? My friend says his mum used it on plants and it was great. The water drained from the spagetti, or water from boiled potato Cooking water has other stuff in it besides starch, including minerals and some protein and vitamins, which can provide nutrition for plants after they break down. The starch may also encourage soil bacteria, which release plant nutrients from organic matter in the soil. This isn't as good an idea if you salt your cooking water. When it comes down to it, house plants usually need very little in the way of plant food, since they usually get little light and grow slowly. People like to feed their house plants, and feeding them dilute stuff like this is gratifying and can provide the plants with the minute quantities of NPK they need under these conditions. People often over-fertilize their house plants with chemical fertilizers, so folk methods like this may be preferable. Another thing people like to feed their house plants is leftover tea and coffee. This works pretty well (coffee provides a surprising amount of nitrogen), and adds stable organic acids to the soil, which is good since potting soil tends to get alkaline in hard water areas. If you use milk in your tea or coffee, do this only seldom or you'll have a stinking mess. Personally, I use pasta water as stock when making soup or for starting a sponge when baking bread. The yellowish color is due to the B vitamin riboflavin, and the liquid contains other vitamins, especially those added to enrich the pasta. This is a growth stimulant to the bread yeast. I haven't boiled potatoes in decades -- I usually nuke them in a casserole in the microwave. I don't peel them either. Life is too short, it's true that a lot of the nutrients are just under the skin, and just about everybody can use more dietary fibre! I sometimes water my house plants with water from my aquaria. This would count as very dilute manure tea, and works great. |
I haven't boiled potatoes in decades -- I usually nuke
them in a casserole in the microwave. I don't peel them either. Life is too short, it's true that a lot of the nutrients are just under the skin, and just about everybody can use more dietary fibre! I sometimes water my house plants with water from my aquaria. This would count as very dilute manure tea, and works great. I'm sorry but potatoes don't contain in their skin great lots of solanina and nicotina? These alcaloids couldn't be so good to increase your life duration!? bye O ...zapppatoore ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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o ...zappatoore wrote: I haven't boiled potatoes in decades -- I usually nuke them in a casserole in the microwave. I don't peel them either. Life is too short, it's true that a lot of the nutrients are just under the skin, and just about everybody can use more dietary fibre! I'm sorry but potatoes don't contain in their skin great lots of solanina and nicotina? These alcaloids couldn't be so good to increase your life duration!? Potato tubers only develop significant amounts of toxic alkaloids when they are exposed to light and turn green. These alkaloids have a very unpleasant bitter taste, so people don't normally eat green potatoes unless they are starving, and even then, you'd have to eat a lot to get significantly ill. Humans have evolved to cope with some amount of toxic alkaloids, as well as to avoid foods containing them by sensitively detecting them as a bitter taste. I suspect the butter people put on their potatoes does more to decrease their life expectancy than the traces of alkaloids in the potato skins! |
I suspect the butter people put on their potatoes does more to decrease
their life expectancy than the traces of alkaloids in the potato skins! I too. :-) ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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