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The North American Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar

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Moon Planting

Posted on October 15th, 2011 by admin

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Moon planting also known as lunar planting has been in existence for many generations and is considered to be one of the oldest forms of gardening. It is believed that the moon position, the Zodiac signs, or both can bring great success in planting. It is once more fetching recognition as communities explore for substitutes to compound fertilizers and pesticides and their terrifying side effects. Execution of the suitable stage of the Moon for all facets of cultivation, planting and harvesting increases the quality as well as quantity of ones crops.

It was observed that diverse plants do better when planted all through the diverse moon phases. Each of the phases influenced the mode by which vegetation developed on the earth through the falling and raising of humidity in both the plants and the earth. To supply supplementary precise records, it was eminent that some crops grew well when cultivated in a specific constellation of the moon. It takes the moon approximately three days to bypass a constellation and this led to the development of an advanced planting calendar.

Planting was not perceived to be most significant to a farmer like the harvest season, which made the recording of the harvest time crucial. This was believed to be so since a harvest that was done at the correct time would last for a longer time. It was basically determined by the ability of the plants storage of water in the crops or fruits at the diverse times of the moon cycle. The Moon planting method encompasses three cycles, which include the Synodic, waning or waxing cycles. It simply divides the astral cycle into four quarters and requires 29.6 days to end the cycle. Plants are grouped into foliage, crops with external or internal seeds and root crops and then relocated to the stage of the moon that best suits their growing distinctiveness.

The biodynamic cycle is a more comprehensive method that was applied to the 12 star or zodiac signs to site the moon for more precise planting. This technique was built up by Rudolf Steiner in the year 1924 using the Zodiac symbols to pinpoint the definite location of the signs as the moon passed through them in the skies. The sidereal cycle utilizes the moons path around the planet earth to determine the best times to propagate and reap. The moons orbit is alienated up into twelve equivalent thirty degree segments to symbolize the moons location in the sky but may vary at times with the present moon position.

Moon planting functions through the gravitational force it exerts in a process referred to as Gravitropism, which ensures plants roots grow downwards and the shoots grow upwards in the correct direction. For example, when a plant planted in a pot is toppled down, the plant continues growing upwards. This is due to gravity but not sunlight as many may think; if the reason for this was sunlight, seeds growing subversive would be growing in all kinds of directions. As plants grow, gravity forms the plant cells and also increases the rate of growth as soon as the gravity is abridged. But there is need to connect this with the moons course to the earth and how it affects plant growth. Moon planting is a form of gardening that is worth giving a try.

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Biodynamic Farming for Planting and Growing Vegetables

Posted on October 13th, 2011 by admin

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Grows You Up To 10 Times The Plants, In Half The Time, With Healthier Plants

Imagine a Garden Where Theres No More Weeds or Soil Pests, No Tilling or Cultivating, No Fertilizer Spreading or Compost Shredding, No Manure Spreading or Irrigating, and No Tractor Shed Required...

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by julie@organikal

Earthworms or night crawlers are best used as fertilizers for vegetables, whether in small or large areas. Such organisms are best suited for a type of composting called vermicomposting. The composting type is a process wherein worms are fed to excrete a form of soil that is very rich in necessary and productive nutrients essential to growth of vegetable crops. This is clearly one technique to implement biodynamic farming. It is not surprising that these days, more and more farmers are treating earthworms as their real best friends.

Studies commissioned by different governmental agriculture institutions globally have found that vermiculture castings or earthworms’ excretions, when mixed in the soil, have seven times more phosphorus, five times nitrate, 11 times potash, thrice amounts of magnesium and almost two times more calcium than normal soil used optimally for vegetable cropping in the most fertile agricultural lands. Vermiculture is indeed one effective way to maintain richness and fertility of soil.

In the past, or in some agricultural areas elsewhere in the globe today, some vegetable farmers regard earthworms as pests. That is why they keep on killing and removing worms they see around their crops. Little did such farmers know that earthworms are actually helpful. As such, the small organisms should be left alone and should be allowed to make burrows in the soil. Such small diggings have proven to be advantageous because they facilitate the flow and entry of air to the soil and down through the roots.

In the US, there are studies conducted by the Ohio State University showing how presence of earthworms in vegetable soil help the plants grow pest-free and ideally better. Vermicompost has been observed to free cabbage, pepper and tomato from savage and harmful pests like aphids, mealy bugs and caterpillars. Though the exact scientific reasons for the events are still yet to be determined, experts suggest that it is because vermicomposts are rich in highly essential nutrients that help vegetable cops become stress resistant and eventually unattractive to pests.

People should also be corrected and educated for their misconception that worms cause rotting of roots and of tubers. Experts and horticulturists emphasize that maggots and other pests usually cause such problems, not worms. In fact, earthworms are known to feed on decaying matters, decomposing leaves and barks and animal manure. The organisms have never been known to feed on vegetable roots, tubers and crops. This is surely one biodynamic farming technique that needs trying out.

If you plan to plant and raise vegetables on the big scale, it would be better if you would consider putting earthworms as fertilizers. Doing so would surely result to better and healthier growth of the vegetable crops and eventually to higher yields and harvests. Biodynamic farming is advantageous in such a way that there is no need to spend too much on chemicals just to make plants healthy. By keeping the soil fertile and conducive for planting, anyone could plant and grow vegetables that are of the highest quality.

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Dr.Tazo interviews Taz about Biodynamic Farming and Gardening. Tazo teaches classes for biodynamic gardening on-line at www.therki.com.
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