[Babycat]

Does anyone garden according to the biorhythmic calendars and if so can you point me in the direction of a good book to read/follow or a suitably useful website?

ta very much!

x Gina

[Aunt Sally]

What the Sam Hill is that  :?:  (Yes I've been watching Superman  :oops: )

I'll have to go away and look up biodi-nammy thingey  :shock:

[Aunt Sally]

I found this and it looks like a load of shoe makers to me

http://www.numerios.com/biorhythms/index.mv?ref=700

but I will read on.

[Aunt Sally]

Here's a calculator download for you

http://www.vicman.net/lib/printable-calendar.htm

Sounds as feasible to me as moon planting  :!:   Sorry to be a pooper on this     I'm sure other members will find it interesting  

[wildeone]

 I'm sure other members will find it interesting  

I found it funny!!!! Seems i'm always in rest!!!! (physical, emotional and intellectual).          

[GrannieAnnie]

I think this is more what Babycat means

http://www.peagreenboat.co.uk/what_is_biodynamics.htm

Any good???

[mkhenry]

I found this and it looks like a load of shoe makers to me

http://www.numerios.com/biorhythms/index.mv?ref=700

but I will read on.

Aunty I dont like to disagee with you but Moon planting and bio/planting really does work.Stonehenge is thought to be a giant Bio calender.


Think about it nature grows according to its own calender,planting and seeding only when things are favourable for the plant or being.Mankind plants whenever or whatever he likes,bending nature to his will.Then nature fights back and gives us plagues or too much rain wind or sun or no sun etc.Bio and moon planting seek to redress the balance at least a little in mans favour.Tests have shown that it can increase the yield and vigour of many crops.

[Babycat]

glad to spread a little joy      

I got curious as there was a lady doing it on that lottie programme on TV and I also use some skincare that works on those principles and it is freakishly effective.

If plonking my carrots in 2 days later and getting more yield because some druid says so then that is fine by me!

x Gina

[Aunt Sally]

Aunty I dont like to disagee with you but Moon planting and bio/planting really does work.

Tests have shown that it can increase the yield and vigour of many crops.

Which tests are these Henry ? Can you give me a link please ?  If the test data proves me wrong I'll eat... a marrow...  Yuk

Seriously though.  Can anyone give me any scientific evidence that Biodynamic gardening works.  I'd be very interested to see it !

[mkhenry]

Even has we speak tests are under way.As soon as they are published we will all be the wiser.Moon planting is very far from new.Our ancestors planted in this way for 1000s of years.It was for practical reasons.It was and is understood that the moon and sun affects all of life.This has nothing to do with religion or moon worship its part of the rythme of life. Meanwhile the moon continues to affect the tides, plants follow the sun and one day Aunty will have to eat a marrow.

[Aunt Sally]

     I look forward to that day Henry, but feel it will never come.  I await the data (and the second coming) with interest  

[mkhenry]

Quote by Yarrow in 36bc,                                                                                                                                                                                                              Trees that are planted in a row are warmed by the sun and the moon equally on both sides,with the result that more grapes and olives will form,and that they ripen earlier.

[Aunt Sally]

    2000 years on and scientific methods have still not proven moon planting let alone biodinamics  :roll:

[mkhenry]

     I look forward to that day Henry, but feel it will never come.  I await the data (and the second coming) with interest  

Aunty why do you find it so hard to believe that the moon affects plants when you readily accepted that planting beans to the south works. moon and sun Ying and Yang.Anyway I dont think you will ever have to eat that marrow because the research money will run out long before they discover anything.

[Aunt Sally]

Munty explained that one Henry.  If the bean is looking up to the sky it rotates in a  clockwise direction following the track of the sun diring the day.  When the bean reaches the bend in the string it helps to keep it climbing the string.  If you planted it to face the other way it would fall off the string.  

All plants need light and heat from the sun.  They don't need moon beams or the planters psychological energy to help them to grow.