Laughing Owl Farm » moon http://www.laughingowlfarm.com Naturally Grown Stuff Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:14:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Planting by the Signs http://www.laughingowlfarm.com/2009/farming/planting-signs/ http://www.laughingowlfarm.com/2009/farming/planting-signs/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:07:59 +0000 Dean Mullis http://www.laughingowlfarm.com/?p=198 Something that interests me but I am not sold on it. My grandma did stuff by the phases of the moon and always had an excellent garden. But she was an excellent gardener to begin with.
I suspect that doing stuff by the signs, if nothing else, helps those that use the practice structure the long list of chores necessary on a farm. Plant on fruitful days, weed, cultivate, till, and prune on barren days.

I have a defacto experiment going on. I was sowing Monday evening in the most fruitful sign, Cancer, until dark. At 7 pm, the signs changed to Leo, the most barren sign. So I should see a major difference in the collards and turnips I sowed after 7 pm, as opposed to the stuff I sowed before 7 pm right?

How to get 100% germination regardless of the signs

It was getting close to dark Monday and I planted 4 rows of Lacinato kale before cleaning out my push seeder to start sowing collards. I plant two rows to a bed and the beds are 285′ long. I planted one row and I am 1/2 way back up the other row and glance over at the 4 rows left to plant… there are 6 rows. Uh-oh…

I had just planted the last of my Georgia Southern collard seed on top of my 2nd bed of lacinato kale.

If the other 9 beds of carrots, beets, kale and collards fail, I am fairly certain that every collard and kale seed in the the double-planted bed will germinate with vigor and it will be a mess to harvest.

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