{"id":547,"date":"2009-06-23T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/06\/making-plants-grow-with-your-voice.html"},"modified":"2009-06-23T16:43:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T16:43:26","slug":"making-plants-grow-with-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/06\/making-plants-grow-with-your-voice.html","title":{"rendered":"Making Plants Grow with Your Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Tomato_grass_backdrop.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>A recent study from Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society <\/a>has found a link between women’s voices and plant growth. Over a month, tomato plants spoken to by women tenders grew significantly faster than those chatted up by men. Some of the men’s plants actually grew at a slower rate than those left completely alone. Researchers don’t know why, but in a recent Telegraph article<\/a>, one speculates that “It could be that [women] have a greater range of pitch and tone that affects the sound waves that hit the plant. Sound waves are an environmental effect just like rain or light.” <\/p>\n

This makes me think of my mom, a great talker-to of her plants. Over the years she has nurtured my leafy cast-offs into veritable jungles of flora–some even sprouting blossoms for the first time. She talks conversationally and kindly to them and they seem to respond well.<\/p>\n

Do you talk to your plants? Do you think it helps?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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