NATURE
What Would Life Be Without Wet Weather?
A blessing to plants and trees. A boon to modern life.
Wet weather offers a bundle of good to us all.
For a start, rain is a blessing to plants and trees. It is, as a gardener says, a match made in heaven (unless, of course, the rainfall is excessive).
Rainwater is the healthiest choice over well water or tap water in watering plants.
Well water contains iron and other heavy minerals that can build up and damage soil and plants.
Tap water contains chlorine that could cause plant-tissue toxicity.
And if you wonder (I did, too) why plants are greener after it rains, this is because some of the elements of air in its nitrate and ammonium forms, are brought down by the rain and are quickly absorbed by the roots and leaves.
When it rains, carbon dioxide combines with other minerals in the atmosphere imparting rainwater with an acidic pH. As this acidic pH reaches the soil, micronutrients locked up in the soil, including copper, iron, manganese and zinc that are…
