Summertime

Summertime in the countryside in England is a very special time.  Fields of wheat and endless days of sunshine…. what could be better!

Best of all … my garden is FULL of beautiful flowers, which seem to bloom and blossom more and more everyday.  I’ve been picking roses for weeks and have vases of fresh flowers all around the house.  In amongst the soft drifts of natural planting I also grow clipped box balls and standard bay trees.  The overall effect is relaxed and peaceful, and I can look forward to enjoying sitting in the garden all summer.

Lunar Planting

I recently came across a very interesting story – Old Wives Tales tell you to sow seed and to transplant only with a waxing, never a waning moon.  The scientists have now caught up with this, discovering the effects of lunar rhythms on the earth’s magnetic field which in turn affect growth.

They have established that all water everywhere, including that inside the tiniest living organism, moves in tides like the sea.  The moon also affects the earth’s atmosphere so that statistically it is more likely to rain heavily (just as you would like immediately after planting) immediately after a full or new moon.  They say that a potato grown at constant levels of heat and light under laboratory conditions will still show a growth rhythm that reflects the lunar pattern.

 

The Old Wife, without laboratory conditions or statistical tables, learned from experience how best to get her plants off to a good start!