LUNAB PLANTING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 230, 29 September 1942, Page 2

LUNAB PLANTING

Replying to your corresponds! ' A Subscriber," I-quote from Inlß national Horticulture of April, 19#@ ■ This is, as you probably are awtifi' one of the authoritative horticultir journals of England: "The effeCMb' the moon on? plant growth has, k some years 'received attention, aiig during the course of centuries, milklore about times of sowing and plant ing has been accumulated, some # which possibly may not withstand investigation of scientific minds. Recent research, however, into the influence of the moon on plant life? tends to prove that many of the practices in the past in regard to".' sowing seed and planting of trees .jilt relation to phases of the moon have;in point of fact, been found to be? accurate. Dr. Rudolph Steiner found S that different forces affect the earthf at the new moon.and the full moon • ■ . Set out briefly it may be saidlj.. that if you plant your spring flower or vegetable seeds on a rising mooathey will show distinctly better H growth than those planted when thefe moon is waning. In a series of experiments, maize planted two day* before full moon ran away frommaize Planted at the full moon, vv hen the first plants were four feet® high, those planted two days later . has only reached 30ins. The difference i_ n , yield was also marked." GORDON C. MOSESL 1?