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Christina

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New pseudoscience just dropped on YouTube: electroculture. Folks out here wrapping copper wire around sticks & sticking it in a garden bed thinking it will make their crops grow bigger. As both an electrical engineer and a gardener I am already too tired for this nonsense šŸ˜¹

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CapnMarrrrk's avatar CapnMarrrrk @capnmarrrrk.bsky.social
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youtu.be/bpVXpCNFOSg?...

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Slimer!'s avatar Slimer! @gakoid.bsky.social
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That only works if you have a dirt farm and are planting 100+ more ghost traps to bust a demigod.

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Dani's avatar Dani @daniskitchen.bsky.social
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it will also make your back ache less while you're working in the garden, truly miracle stuff that copper šŸ˜†

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Kim's avatar Kim @kimoco.bsky.social
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One thing copper might help is stopping slugs and snails, but only if you want to protect the stick you wrapped in copper wire. šŸ˜‚

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czarrie's avatar czarrie @czarrie.bsky.social
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Maybe it works by Frankenstein rules, just wait for a lightning storm and watch all of the dead plants from the past year come back to life

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Karmageddon's avatar Karmageddon @karmageddon.bsky.social
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This is why I avoid gardening forums like the plague.

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Angela's avatar Angela @heyaries325.bsky.social
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As someone who might have fallen for this nonsense (Iā€™m generally not vulnerable to pseudoscience but I am a very brand new gardener), Iā€™d like to thank you for this post.

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Benene's avatar Benene @akw.bsky.social
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ah yes, copper, a material famously so hostile to life that we literally use coils of it to insta kill sperm

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Two Turntables and a Nixraphone's avatar Two Turntables and a Nixraphone @nixanadoo.com
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like... No lol

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