Christina: 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 😹

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 😹

it will also make your back ache less while you're working in the garden, truly miracle stuff that copper 😆

Lmaoooo this is giving me flashbacks to the "grounding my husband's bed" TikTok www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNjsPTFN/

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

I uninstalled TikTok the other day and now it won't let me play videos in browser? didn't realize that would happen

Yeah, they just changed that a few weeks ago.

did you know making a little tree out of $50 bills and planting it in your front yard will make jesus love you and cure foot fungus

I don't have a front yard, now jesus will never love me 😦

*prosperity gospel intensifies*

That only works if you have a dirt farm and are planting 100+ more ghost traps to bust a demigod.

youtu.be/bpVXpCNFOSg?...

Buckaroo Banzai Watermelon Sceneyoutu.be Why the hell IS there a watermelon there?

One thing copper might help is stopping slugs and snails, but only if you want to protect the stick you wrapped in copper wire. 😂

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

This is why I avoid gardening forums like the plague.

We are so fortunate with the bsky Gardening feed, folks are so knowledgeable and helpful! The one Facebook gardening group I'm in is just... it's the wild west out there 😂

Exactly. The only FB gardening groups I'm in are either exclusively for, or moderated but Extension Master Gardeners.

As someone who might have fallen for this nonsense (I’m generally not vulnerable to pseudoscience but I am a very brand new gardener), I’d like to thank you for this post.

It can be so hard to sort good info from bad when you're learning! I watch YouTube a lot for gardening & cooking & still pick up bad advice from it regularly. 😄 It sucks that the online information environment is in such bad shape

ah yes, copper, a material famously so hostile to life that we literally use coils of it to insta kill sperm

like... No lol

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