Leftovers Again; Women, Talk to Your Tomatoes
Nobody in this house is a big fan of leftovers. But when there’s an abundance of leftover grilled sausage, it’s too good to ignore. So with a little inspiration from my sister-in-law I converted the leftovers into a jambalaya type of rice dish, but with Italian, rather than creole seasonings. I fried up green pepper, onions, and the sausage. Cooked up a little rice and mixed in a can Italian seasoned diced tomatoes. Mixed both pots together and we had a pretty satisfying encore from that sausage. Too bad Annie didn’t love it. But you know what they say about pleasing all of the people all of the time.
In the news… Women Talk to Your Tomatoes.
Watering the tomato plants will no longer be a quiet, meditative task for me. No, according to a study completed by the Royal Horticultural Society I will have to chatter away as I water them. In this study, researchers compared taped recordings of men and women reading a passage from Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, or John Wyndham’s “The Day of the Triffids” to see whether there was an effect on the growth rate of tomato plants (who comes up with this stuff?) All growing conditions for the plants were the same. Headphones with the recorded voices were placed on the pots. Researchers expected the plants would respond more favorably to male voices than to female voices, but they were very wrong. In fact, some male voices stunted the growth of the plants compared with a silent control group. The results were that the most successful female voice caused her plant to grow two inches taller than the best male voice. Fittingly, the most successful voice belonged to Sarah Darwin reading from her great great grandfather’s work.
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What does an extra two inches on a tomato plant do for me? Does it get me an extra tomato or bigger tomatos or is my plant just taller?
How does Annie feel about andouille?
Hmm, sounds like somebody is a little jealous that he’s not a girl. The plant is clearly happier, standing taller, and I’m certain that because of that will produce far superior tomatoes to the male voice listeners.
Annie doesn’t care for andouille.
As far as I’m concerned, a female voice is more likely to cause growth. For our species, it is the sound of nurturing, care and concern. At least…that’s what he said…
I’m in agreement with Joe. Females are traditionally the nurturers, so coo, sing, and whisper lovingly to all your plants and every now and then give them a little hug too!
And they will reward you with love back. My salad greens were lovely this evening.