#myth-busting
2 entries
- Library ·
How Plants Work — a review
The modern science-for-gardeners book Capon's older primer makes you wish existed. Chalker-Scott explains plant physiology in plain English and uses it to gently demolish a century of garden mythology. The most useful evidence-based plant book on our shelf.
- Library ·
The NASA Clean Air Study — a review
The 1989 NASA report that launched a thousand 'air-purifying plant' listicles. The science is real but narrow — and almost universally misread. A careful look at what Wolverton's team actually measured, why it doesn't mean what the internet thinks it means, and what Wolverton himself did next.