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Re: Moon Planting

Vernon Webster said,
>     In Britain we have a weekly radio program called 'Gardeners Question
>Time' on BBC Radio 4. Today, Bob Flowerdew (it is his real name), an
>organic gardener, announced to listeners that he wanted to conduct a large
>scale experiment on lunar planting. He asks as many listeners as possible
>to plant some seeds on Good Friday ,then to repeat a similar planting on
>Easter Monday. They are asked to report on initial germination and then on
>final crop results. We shall see what happens. Maybe some readers of this
>newsletter would like to join in and make it a world wide experiment.

Vern, I'm willing to play Flowerdew's little game.  But I don't see how a
3-day interval could make any difference.  From what I've been reading in
the Farmers' Almanac about lunar planting, the difference is between
planting on a waning moon and a waxing moon.  The moon was completely full
just last night (3/23).  Next weekend it'll be on the downward side, but the
period between Friday and Monday doesn't constitute a flip from wax to wane.
So how could this particular interval be relevant?

Now if Flowerdew had specified planting, say, 3/24 (the start of the wane)
vs. planting 2 weeks later (the start of the wax), I think we'd have some
interesting data.

Am I confused?

--Janet
USDA zone 7, Adelphi, Maryland, USA
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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com
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