If you’ve been planting seeds for any length of time, have you noticed that sometimes they come up in just a day or two or three? Other times it takes a week, two weeks or so? Well, it does. Same seeds, same dirt, same everything, but vastly different germination patterns.

Why?

Could it be the moon? If you ask old timer gardeners they will say, “Of course it’s the moon.”

The monthly moon cycles of waxing (from new moon to full moon) and waning (from full moon to new moon) has profound affect on many things on this earth – ocean tides, crime rates, bleeding, sap rising, women’s cycles and conception and births… and that’s a short list. Why not seed germination?

Since the moon also affects fluid movement in plants (fluid which contains hormones and nutrients) it’s reasonable that an internal environmental change could speed up or slow down growth changes in a seed. Also make certain times better for pruning and harvesting and weeding and cultivating.

The only way to find out for sure is to do some experimenting of your own. You’ll find the current moon phase right over there to the right, and here are a couple of websites with interesting information and charts you can use. I’m going to give it a try… hope you do too.

http://ourgardengang.tripod.com/moonplanting.htm

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moongrow.htm

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