How to Grow More Vegetables

The plant will forget the trauma of being pricked out when it tastes the delectable new lunch treats in the second at. This pro ...

deeper than it was in the 9rst at. For many crops, lettuce and the cabbage family in particular, it is optimal for the seedling ...

Open the planting space in the new flat with a widger while ... ... placing the seedling in the hole. Gently sweep the soil into ...

Evenly spaced pricked-out seedlings Transplanting A Biodynamic gardener once had a row of broccoli plants. Only two plants had a ...

Unpot a seedling correctly. Spread root-bound plant roots out before transplanting them into a bed. For best bulb formation, do ...

shown here. When transplanting, it is important to handle the seedlings gently and to touch them as little as possible. Plants d ...

being so tightly grown together from having been kept in a starting at or pot so long that with the soil they constitute a tigh ...

over, it will upright itself, but will develop a very “tough neck” that will reduce the quality and size of the plant and crop. ...

Result of improper transplanting Optimally, transplanting should be done in the early evening so the seedlings get settled into ...

the bed. Some compaction will have occurred by the time the seed is a “child” a month later and, in some cases, so much so after ...

long-germinating seeds (which take approximately 1 month to germinate) are planted 2 days before the new moon, when signi9cant m ...

when you sowed the seeds. You may 9nd the moon had an inuence. Extra-long-germinating seeds are also planted at the new moon. T ...

did not germinate at the time of the new moon should do so by the full moon. Alan Chadwick said that it is during this period th ...

extra-long-germinating seed crops are listed in the Master Charts in chapter 8. Planting by the Phases of the Moon Plant short- ...

Increased leaf growth rate. Moonlight + Lunar gravity + Transplant short- and extra-long-germinating seedlings from flats into b ...

Increased root growth rate. Moonlight - Lunar gravity - Balanced decrease in rate of root and leaf growth (resting period). Moon ...

A planted seed bursts its seed coat around the 28th day of the lunar month and proceeds into a period of slow, balanced, and inc ...

grow satisfactorily. However, as your soil improves and as you gain experience, each gardening detail will become more important ...

when you water, the pressure built up in the rose 9rst goes up into the air, where much of the pressure is dissipated as it ows ...

Special upward-pointing Haws watering rose Some plants, such as those in the cabbage family, like wet leaves. It is all right, a ...