For every gardener who swears by electroculture — harnessing atmospheric electricity to help plants grow — it seems there’s another ready to debunk it.
Bertholon’s book also promoted an invention, the “electro-vegeto-meter,” which used a large system of metal pillars and wires above a garden to electrify the whole plot. Things went haywire when Jan Ingenhousz, the discoverer of photosynthesis, installed the device in his garden and the plants promptly died. Ingenhousz publicly maligned the idea, and for the next century, electroculture fell out of vogue.
. He’d noted that trees grew more rapidly beneath the aurora borealis, an effect he attributed to the northern lights’ electrical field. His experiments prompted British scientists to conduct their own, and early findings were so promising that, in 1918, the British Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries convened anIn 1936, with funding depleted, the committee disbanded.
While there’s no hard evidence to suggest copper antennas, the “bastardized, social media-lite version” of electroculture, as Espiritu puts it, have any impact in the garden, research in the greater field is surging. Some studies have shown that other electrified systems may work.
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