[AndyRVTR]

I read a post on Faceache this morning about this year's phases of the moon and it made interesting reading though i don't know what merit it may hold.... thoughts anyone?

"So, was speaking to my mother last night and was telling her how awful it was this year for veg and fruit and how the weather was so rubbish and she says: “yes it’s because it’s a year with 10 full moons”. Apparently it’s cyclic and my grandfather used to look at the phases of the moon and grow stuff accordingly. He had an almanach every year which gave the phases of the moon."

[New shoot]

There are people who swear by planting and sowing in tune with the moon and others who debunk it as rubbish and a whole lot of the rest of us who are too disorganised to even attempt it 

I think the chilly temperatures over most of spring did most of the damage.  The rain isn’t helping now, but I was really late sowing most of my seeds and it shows now 

[mumofstig]

there have been quite a few discussions about it, just a fairly recent one here

https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=136199.msg1568431#msg1568431

[Subversive_plot]

I think following lunar cycles does for the gardener/farmer what an alarm clock and calendar does for a typical working person. It keeps you on a schedule (so that you aren't planting corn two months early or two months late).

I pay more attention to predicted last and first frost dates, and weather forecasts. Also the mundane list of appointments and emergencies that always seem to interfere with gardening on a schedule.

[missmoneypenny]

My French cousin says the local farmers believe leap years always have weird weather ( this is a leap year). Insert Gallic shrug, down glass of red wine.