Broad Bean comparison Moon & Control Beds

They are so big!!! Fantastic crop.

WOw that is amazing. They all look so heathly and so nice to eat my mouth is just watering looking at them.
Looking forward in hearing how the runner beans done do you think you get the same result over all the crops??

The potatoes we have harvested to day all had greater yields from the moon bed than they did from the control bed Pottyd. Runner beans are not part of the trial. Next up will be peas :-)

Its obvious yield is improved Moongrower, but at the risk of asking a daft question is the resistance to pests and diseases and general health improved aswell?

Good crop MG, you have proved your point there.

Hi Dido, not a daft question at all. Yes the broad beans in the moon bed had less black fly on them and seemed to be totally unaffected by those that were there; we were regularly nipping off leaves from the control bed beans that the black fly had overrun. The stems of the beans in the moon bed were sturdier than those in the control bed and there was better leaf growth on the moon bed plants. In fact that you for asking that question I've got to write an article later in the year on this trial and need to include what I've just written!

Thank you Dr B I know it hasn't worked for all the veg. and will says so as we harvest them.

I'm sorry if you've been asked this many times before Mg,but how come this isn't done more commercially ?
Surely this has to be better than GM,irradiation and whatever else they like to use to interfere with our food.
At the risk of answering my own question, could it possibly be that we have come to expect our food out of season and from any country ?

Hi Aster valid question. In part it is that we want to eat out of season food, I certainly would not want to exist on a diet of tatties, kale, neeps and a few other brassicas in winter; though with greenhouses you can grow more than that.

It is certainly feasible to farm by the moon, this is biodynamic agriculture. BUT it requires more labour than commercial growing using chemicals and thus is more expensive. This however does not justify GM or irradiation which are both used to make money for big business not the farmer.

If the commercial farmers would even rotate their crops it would help. The field at the end of our garden is sown to spring barley with, possibly, an area of seed potatoes, every year. In order to keep the grain growing the farmer has to add more and more artificial fertiliser and sprays regularly to destroy weeds and insects life. This simply isn't healthy.

I'm going to stop now or this will turn into a rant!

Hopefully sometime soon they will see sense :) I wonder if farmers in Africa or Asia grow by this method,they surely have enough labour,but that's politics-better not go there for fear of more rants lol :))

Lol Aster... Frankly I have no clue how subsistence farmers grow. Certainly they do not use artificial fertilisers and pesticides!

Thanks for the reply Moongrower, it never fails to amaze me what a difference it makes... Is it an article we can all read?

It will be Dido, will be in, I think, the December issue of Grow It!

Thank you, I will look out for it