French Field Trials of 'Growing by the Moon'
By moon_grower
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To put our trial of growing by the moon into perspective I thought you’d all like to see the results of a trial by a French grower who has been ‘growing by the moon’ for years…
Chris Schweiger has been ‘Growing by the Moon’ for many years and translates the moon guide into German. Below are photos of his own comparison of sowing peas at the right and wrong time…
The peas on the left were sown on the perigee whilst those on the right were sown on a fruit day.
The difference speaks for itself… other than being planted on different days both rows of peas were grown in exactly the same way!
Chris has sent me some more field trial comparisons and I will post these as I have time.
23 Apr, 2010
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Indeed Linda - so many people think that growing by the moon is new-age and hippy, it is anything but!
23 Apr, 2010
WOW.
That's a significant difference.
23 Apr, 2010
Yup, helps to prove that there is something in growing by the moon - at least it does to me! Of course planting at the perigee is one of the worst times to plant if you accept the premise of growing by the moon. Along with the ascending and descending nodes.
23 Apr, 2010
Hmmmm.... I can see that I shall end up looking into this some more!
23 Apr, 2010
Hope you do Karensue
23 Apr, 2010
Interesting.
I planted shallots on a root day. 3 red and 3 ordinary ones.
23 Apr, 2010
Then let us hope you have a good crop Hywel
24 Apr, 2010
I'll let you know how they did
24 Apr, 2010
Fascinating! But WHY does it work? How does a lump of dead (supposedly) matter thousands of miles away have any effect of organic matter on this planet? I understand the moon is the cauise of tides - but again - WHY? And HOW?
24 Apr, 2010
Hi Nariz take a look at http://intunewithmoon.findhornpress.com/?page_id=18 for more of an explanation - if you are still curious let me know and I'll send you the book!
24 Apr, 2010
Thanks MG - busy with stuff at the moment, but when I have a quiet five minutes ............
25 Apr, 2010
this is amazing- i've read your blogs on growing by the moon- you have so much patience to be trying this. will be interested to see photos of your own crops to compare!
30 Apr, 2010
Keep watching a few months from now and we should have some results!
30 Apr, 2010
This comparison is amazing and interesting. I imagine we could do our own trials with planting a few of similar plants on different days.
29 May, 2010
Yup that is exactly what we are doing. Everything is grown organically but in the moon bed we only plant, sow, weed hoe etc. on the correct days. In the control bed we make sure to do everything on the days we are not supposed to... Other than that the seed everything is the same.
29 May, 2010
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Gosh!! What a difference. The old ways are well worth researching.
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