It might sweeten your tomatoes but there are other, more interesting effects of adding sugar to your soil:
- Microbes will be attracted that make nutrients in the soil more available, so you need less anorganic fertilizer: you save money, avoid soil salinization and decrease carbon footprint
- Sugar helps your soil to longer hold water available for your plants
I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!! (this is from another person)
I did an experiment on mung bean plants where I watered 3 plants with sugar and 3 plants with water, I conducted my experiment for 21 days, on the last day, the height of the 3 regular plants in centimeters were 15 and two measured 15.5 centimeters.
The sugar watered plants had the heights of 7, 4.5, and 3 centimeters
I added 1/2 tablespoon of sugar and mixed it with 6 oz of water and poured 2 oz. of the mixture in each pot,
by the way I germinated them beforehand with just water.
The 7 centimeter plant of the sugar lost all of its leaves
The sugared leaves were very small and shriveled, while the regular leaves grew big and healthy
That is why i don't believe it!
i think that if you put white sugar in the soil of a plant it would kill the plant.
The plants would not have enough nutrients from the soil because the decomposers are not around to decompose dead things and get the nutrients back into the soil.
The roots of a plant is the part that gets water and minerals from the soil.
Soil bacteria are the natural soil microorganisms that break down soil components into plant food.
Plant matter decomposes; rocks erode; both contribute to soil quality and type.
If a plant's soil has too much water, the roots can rot, and the plant can't get enough oxygen from the soil. If there is not enough water for a plant, the nutrients it needs cannot travel through the plant.
both are not good for you. however, alot of people thinks that brown sugar is actually better, but this is not true. "Brown sugar, through clever marketing, has no nutritional differences than white sugar." See link for Food Genetics
NO sugar isnt from the soil becuase Plants use photosynthesis to turn Where_do_plants_get_their_foodenergy into sugar for the plant to eat.
soil in the ground: usually maggots Plant soil from store: plant food
Watering a plant with sugar water will usually harm it because it makes soil water less available to the plant. In technical terms, it lowers the water potential of the soil water by lowering the osmotic potential.
it will plant.
No, sugar water will kill the pumpkin plant. All the pumpkin plant needs is good soil water and sunlight.
It extracts water and nutrients from the soil.
You know how the soil grows plants like in the rock but if there is no soil then the plant won't grow in the rock.
The roots of sugar cane help to hold the soil in place. Without the roots, the soil would wash away. This works with any type of plant, really.
it would get dried out.
Plants that have died can be composted and returned to the soil as a mulch.
It can result in erosion, nutrient depletion, and desertification.