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May 06 2009
Moon gardening
Next to my keyboard there is a pallid, almost dead cucumber seedling that I am trying to nurse back to health with a daily dose of comfrey tea and a bubble wrap jacket round his pot for warmth. I figure that every gardener has her casualties but I find mine very difficult to accept.
So I am hoping to revive this unhappy looking specimen although I know that if I do manage, this plant will always be weaker and more susceptible to disease and pests than it’s contemporaries. I have to at least try though! After years of loosely following a planting by the moon schedule I am wholeheartedly gardening according to the lunar phases this year and the results have been quite brilliant. My seedlings are all really strong and healthy (apart from aforementioned cuc) and some of the germination times have been almost record-breaking (well, almost!). I planted lettuce in April on a day when the moon was in Cancer – particularly good for sowing and harvesting leaf vegetables. Within 4 days the tray was full of green shoots and now that tray is almost ready to be planted out.
Today, with the moon in Libra, it’s time to plant flower seeds. I haven’t had a chance to sow any today but the moon doesn’t move into Scorpio until Friday so I have a little extra time to plant the borage, calendula, nasturtium, sunflowers and echinacea that I want to get started. Will keep you updated on this sorry cucumber and how my trials with lunar gardening are going.
And, do let me know what you are up to in your garden.
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Hello darling! Today we have pumpkins, sweetcorn, courgettes, beetroot and tomatoes in steady growth and some rather sad looking cucumbers (like yours) that the slugs got the better of. Very excited about our beans, sweetpeas, sunflowers and stocks which are all living the high life in our mini-greenhouse. I’m hoping the cucumbers will have the strength to pull through (which the Fench beans unfortunately didn’t) and will let you know how they fare. Good luck reviving your little cucumber, hope he makes it!! xxx
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