On 7/9/2007 10:36 PM tariq.1.rahim@spamgourmet.com exclaimed:
> On Jul 1, 3:16 am, Brian K wrote:
>
>> On 6/29/2007 10:44 AM tariq.1.ra...@spamgourmet.com exclaimed:> One way in these days of acute water shortages and environmental
>>
>>> stress to help out the environment is the following:
>>>
>>> after you're done with your soda at an evil fast-food franchise, which
>>> too many americans patronize, you can give the environment a boost by
>>> dumping the unfinished ice into the restaurant's lawn or shrubs. they
>>> can use the water and it won't go to waste sealed inside a trash bag.
>>>
>> The ice will cause the plants to go into shock. The sweetness of the
>> soda will attract ants. Once they consume the sugar from the soda, they
>> will attack the plants. So this is helping the plants how?
>>
>> Take less ice, plain and simple.
>>
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>
> you're just being a naysayer.
>
> the plants can use the water.
> period.
>
>
No I'm a gardener. Dumping ice on some plants will indeed cause them to
go in shock. Some plants like some pelargermaniums are 80% water. If
you subject one that you've cultivated between 40F - 99F to ice it will
go into shock, especially if it has be acclimated to 80 - 99F. Sugar
will indeed draw ants and some species are omnivorous. Once the sugar
is consumed, they will turn to the nearest source of sugar - the plant.
If you want to help the environment, know what it is you are doing and
consider the impact. Otherwise you aren't any different then the people
who caused the problems in the first place.
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