Water less and produce more blooms?

Have you ever heard that you can make water wetter?? Is that really a thing?

As it turns out, yes, it is a thing. I couldn’t wrap my head around the concept until I did some reading. The definition of the word ‘surfactant’ is a pretty good place to start. (A surfactant, or surface active agent, makes water more efficient by making water wetter. Water becomes “wetter” by lowering its surface tension.)

This spring has been overly cool and rainy here in the Pacific NW, and the veggies I started inside are ready to go outside, but can’t because it’s still too cold. So I’m nurturing them inside as best I can. With some help from Shaklee Basic H2. I can’t say enough about it so far. Not only is it a safe, biodegradable surfactant, but it penetrates the soil so that nutrients can be absorbed more readily. And from what I can see, fruit flies don’t like it. (This is its secondary purpose – it’s primarily sold as a super-concentrated multi-purpose cleaner, but I found some articles written by farmers who sing its praises for plants and animals and decided to try it out.)

My spaghetti squash plants are now about 3 feet long and I have tomatoes on my plants – green ones, but still… it’s only May. Seriously hoping for some warm weather soon. It’ll be a jungle inside soon…