I see I could, if I wish, buy a 2010 Gardening by the Moon calendar to hang on the wall.
A search on the internet brings me to this explanation on an American website devoted to the subject:
Gardening by the phases of the moon is a technique that can speed the germination of your seeds by working with the forces of nature. Plants respond to the same gravitational pull of tides that affect the oceans, which alternately stimulates root and leaf growth. Seeds sprout more quickly, plants grow vigorously and at an optimum rate, harvests are larger and they don't go to seed as fast. This method has been practiced by many for hundreds of years, and is a perfect compliment to organic gardening because it is more effective in non-chemically treated soil.
Can there really be anything in this? As an opponent of all things hocus pocus – spiritualism and homeopathy being chief among them - I am naturally sceptical.
I doubt that I shall be giving it a try.
(The use of the word compliment instead of complement is theirs, by the way)
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