Green in GP Box Today

Recently I have been concerned about the greens growing in the GP box in the sunroom. They are doing okay but not living up to expectations. The soil is good, I have the right seeds this year, they are watered and I have a second fluorescent light fixture. Yet they are only growing okay, not great. Yesterday Dave at Amaranth Café mentioned that it has been a long time since the sun has appeared. This morning I looked at the greens in the box and noticed the sun was shining in through the windows. It struck me that maybe there is something about sunlight that no grow lights can substitute for. My friend John, who now lives in the apartment upstairs with my son, said he thought it was Vitamin D that only was in the sun. I am not sure how scientific these observations about the significance of sun on growth are, but certainly felt the plants were healthier today. Tonight’s salad contained a healthy amount of the GP box greens.

There are many things in life that there is no substitute for. Fast food restaurants can, with chemicals, make anything taste like something else, but the artificially created food is no substitute for healthy organic food. We have sugar substitutes and now Splenda made from sugar that is a substitute for sugar substitutes! Also in food we substitute diet plans or quick fixes for weight loss over good eating and exercise. Children playing graphic games via the Internet with other children are no substitute for children playing directly with each other using their imaginations. Virtual reality cannot substitute for reality. Now these substitutes can be bad or good, but, like the sun, they are no substitute for the real thing.

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