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    Thought this was interesting

    Nine gardening myths debunked | Life and style | The Observer

  • #2
    Well I could agree with more or less everything said.
    One, possibly two fall into the area of making no difference so not wrong or right, as in 8 may not do any real good but neither will it do any real harm.

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    • #3
      Hmm. I found the tone derogatory.
      When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
      If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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      • #4
        The only one that confused me was leaves not being burned by water droplets being penetrated by the sun.............are we to believe this?............
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        • #5
          seems like that would be an easy one to test.

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          • #6
            I'm really disappointed in this - I'm going to dig up all the manure filled cow's horns if they're not going to work

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            • #7
              I know VC! Looks like no more sky clad rituals either
              When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
              If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                I'm going to dig up all the manure filled cow's horns if they're not going to work
                Not planted mine yet looked ever so hard to see which moon cycle to plant them,but failed to find any mention So I decided to plant by star signs instead logical innit : horn's,manure,bull so currently planning to sow when we go into Taurus
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                • #9
                  Found the whole tone of the article preachy and condescending regardless of the rights and wrong.gs of the advice.

                  Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                  Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Alison View Post
                    Found the whole tone of the article preachy and condescending regardless of the rights and wrong.gs of the advice.
                    It's the Observer isn't it Alison always condescending

                    They can all scoff, but the people who deride biodynamic gardening are the ones who have never tried it properly, so how do they know? They don't, they just mock because it's easy and funny to do. Yet all are astonished when they see my seedlings - hilarious really
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by bearded bloke View Post
                      Not planted mine yet looked ever so hard to see which moon cycle to plant them,but failed to find any mention So I decided to plant by star signs instead logical innit : horn's,manure,bull so currently planning to sow when we go into Taurus
                      Sorry BB but thats all bull**** to me LOL

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                      • #12
                        If the RHS has distanced itself it speaks volumes to me I'm afraid......but each to their own. I'm just extremely dubious.

                        Good luck to all who practice it though..........

                        Loving my allotment!

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                        • #13
                          Oh for gods sakes! No crap filled horns? What next? Telling us that Maypoles don't work?
                          I have had enough of this. I am just gonna have to cancel my plans to sacrifice a hamster to Ceres on the altar we had specially built at the end of the garden now!

                          I mean the kids at the school are gonna be soooo disappointed. They were gonna film it for their RMPS project too!

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                          • #14
                            The best way to complete the sentence, "I don't want to mock anyone's sincerely held beliefs but...", is to place a full stop before the word "but".
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                            • #15
                              If you follow the link in the Article, it seems there's a lot more to it than just burying the crappy horns:-

                              Preparation 500 involves stuffing cow horns with cow manure, burying them in winter, digging them up in spring, mixing the reputedly transformed and "sweet smelling" dung with water for one hour (reversing the stirring direction three times a minute to get the right combination of "vortex and order") and sprinkling the result on farm fields at the rate of an ounce of manure per acre.

                              Anyone else having problems with a disordered vortex

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