🌱 True or False: Garden Myth Buster

[SPedigrees]

I hope you meant carbon dioxide.

I did, and I'm an idiot. lol Can you tell that I passed high school chemistry with a grade of D+, and that was most likely a pity grade?

 

[SPedigrees]

Me thinks you reply with your phone too much--TOO easy to misspell and/or have your phone insert the wrong word!

Nope. I have only landline phones. I have to take credit for this mistake myself, but thanks for offering me an excuse.

 

[akroberts]

I knew most of the answers but a couple of things got me. I know that talking to your plants is good for them because of the fact that they breathe in carbon monoxide and in exchange give oxygen.

 

[flowerbug]

... I know that talking to your plants is good for them because of the fact that they breathe in carbon monoxide and in exchange give oxygen.

carbon dioxide (not carbon monoxide).

 

[R2elk]

I knew most of the answers but a couple of things got me. I know that talking to your plants is good for them because of the fact that they breathe in carbon monoxide and in exchange give oxygen.

If you are exhaling carbon monoxide, you better get to the hospital asap.

 

[SPedigrees]

carbon dioxide (not carbon monoxide).

and here I thought I was the only chemistry illiterate gardener present...

 

[akroberts]

and here I thought I was the only chemistry illiterate gardener present...

Nope. I probably thought carbon monoxide and not dioxide because I didn't care for science.