Black Sabbath Make Plants Grow Healthier, According To Bizarre Experiment
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
Heavy metal icons Black Sabbath have long been masters of reality, but now, they seem to be masters of the plant world too - as it’s been claimed that plants that are blasted with the sound of the band grow much healthier than others!
The bizarre idea was seemingly proved in an experiment by Chris Beardshaw, who works on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners Question Time. The presenter will, according to The Guardian, reveal the results of the experiment on Friday (April 26th), and out of the three artists played to the plants, it appears that Ozzy Osbourne and co. are the best for healthy growing plants!
He told the paper:
“We set up four glasshouses with different sorts of music in to see what happened to the plants. We had one that was silent - that was a control house - and we had one that was played classical music, we had one that was played Cliff Richard and we had one that was played Black Sabbath.”
“It was alstroemerias we were growing and we bombarded these glasshouses with sound for the life of the plant. The one that was grown with classical music - a soft, almost a caressing of the plant when it is hit with that sort of soundwave - those grew slightly shorter because of the soundwaves bombarding them and were slightly more floriferous and there was slightly less pest and disease.”
He added finally:
“And the ones with Black Sabbath - great big, thumping noise, rowdy music - they were the shortest, but they had the best flowers and the best resistance to pest and disease…The alstroemerias in the Cliff Richard house all died. Sabotage was suspected but we couldn't prove it.”
Although it appears Black Sabbath are the best so far, there are dozens of other bands and artists you could use in the experiment. Who would you pick for the plants? Let us know your answers in the comment box below!
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Tue December 10th 2013 - O2 Arena, London
Thu December 12th 2013 - Odyssey Arena, Belfast
Sat December 14th 2013 - Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield
Mon December 16th 2013 - Hydro Arena, Glasgow
Wed December 18th 2013 - Apollo Manchester, Manchester
Fri December 20th 2013 - LG Arena, Birmingham
Sun December 22nd 2013 - National Indoor Arena, Birmingham
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