There Is No Home For Me Without Plants
I need their energy around me always
I have never lived in a home without plants, and I know I never want or intend to.
I come from a people who have loved the earth, tilled its soil, grew their food, and tended to its crops.
Following the cycle of growing, reaping, and fallowing.
The home of my childhood boasted beautiful plans both indoors as well as outside.
The indoor plants were beautiful and healthy. We often placed them on the patio and stairs for the additional sun.
When the rains came, we were instructed to leave them outside for some time as rainwater provided added benefits.
Hutchinson in 1957 showed that rainwater is a mixed electrolyte. See his book here. You have to know that when minerals dissolve in water, it produces charged ions — negative and positive. These are your electrolytes which are very important. Rainwater has major ions and minor ions.
The major constituents are the following — sodium, bicarbonate, magnesium, calcium, chloride, potassium, and sulfate. They are usually combined with nitrogenous compounds such as ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, and nitrogen.
The minor ions include iron, bromine, boron, iodine, silica, and alumina…
