Why Does Acid Rain Make Vegetables Grow Faster?
Posted by admin on February 8, 2010
at school we’ve just done an experiment: we left some seeds over some cotton with acid rain water, and other seeds in pure water for some days. after these days the seeds in the wet cotton with acid rain water were more grown than the pure water’s!
what’s the reason?? i thought that the acid rain would have ruined them, not letting them grow.
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During acid rain atmospheric nitrogen gets dissolved in it and reaches soil along with the rain and nitrogen helps plants to grow faster.
plants thrive in different pH’s. therefore the seeds you planted must have benefited from acidic soil and therefore grew well with the acid rain.
Some plants actually like an acidic soil..to a point! The problem with acid rain is that it is too acid and the exposure is prolonged doing harm. Azaleas love an acid soil. If you want to grow them in the west where the soil is alkali you have to treat the soil with acidifiers..How ever enough acid rain will kill even an azalea. Acid rain has been known to take paint off of cars.