9 Gardening myths debunked

[redser]

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

Damn, I knew I was doing something wrong. It's 3!!! Times a minute I need to stir.

[w33blegurl]

I was very amused by the sentence likening biodynamics to witchcraft! As a scientist I do find homeopathy rather hard to believe but I think likening it all to witchcraft might be a little over the top!! Where does one buy a cows horn of manure these days anyway...??!

[maytreefrannie]

Can't speak for them all, but :

MYTH 2 Lighten clay by adding sand :

Tried it and grew grand carrots and parsnips a couple of years running.

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MYTH 3 Young trees should be staked (Not, they say)

Tried it - did not stake and have a beautifully-profiled bendy apple tree.

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MYTH 7 Gravel helps containers to drain

Tried it and it works very well - as does filling the ends of the pots with heavy clay.

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MYTH 9 Natural is safer

I think this is self-evident, as witness the current EU discussion re bees and certain types of fertiliser.

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The "old people" didn't know everything but they learned to observe well and from that took on board some practices that stood them in good stead (and still do).

[VirginVegGrower]

can't speak for them all, but :

myth 2 lighten clay by adding sand :

Tried it and grew grand carrots and parsnips a couple of years running.

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myth 3 young trees should be staked (not, they say)

tried it - did not stake and have a beautifully-profiled bendy apple tree.

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myth 7 gravel helps containers to drain

tried it and it works very well - as does filling the ends of the pots with heavy clay.

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myth 9 natural is safer

i think this is self-evident, as witness the current eu discussion re bees and certain types of fertiliser.

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the "old people" didn't know everything but they learned to observe well and from that took on board some practices that stood them in good stead (and still do).

brilliant post!

[Seahorse]

And what, exactly, is wrong with witchcraft?

To me it reads like a commissioned 'can you just whip summat up?' article, no conviction or proper research.

[VirginVegGrower]

And what, exactly, is wrong with witchcraft?

To me it reads like a commissioned 'can you just whip summat up?' article, no conviction or proper research.

But the naysayers that deride are always the ones that don't try it before dismissing it.

[RedThorn]

And here I just thought the whirling vortex of witch wind was the missus in nesting mode....

Where do they dig nutters like this up?

[bearded bloke]

Dunno RT but I reckon Steiner was on summat good 'n strong when he dreamed this lot up ..... Mod4 ..

[Alison]

I was very amused by the sentence likening biodynamics to witchcraft! As a scientist I do find homeopathy rather hard to believe but I think likening it all to witchcraft might be a little over the top!! Where does one buy a cows horn of manure these days anyway...??!

Ebay probably

[Newton]

I've got two spare.......just �500 each.......a bargain........just send me a cheque!

[bearded bloke]

Nah two are not enough bud,I want the full set of three : Manure,Silica,(& the even more elusive) Clay

[veggiechicken]

For three horns you need the fabled Unicow..........

[Alison]

Do you get the impression we're not taking this 100% seriously?

[veggiechicken]

............I am, Alison

[bearded bloke]

Sitting here having a right good chuckle