PLANT BEFORE FULL MOON
ADVICE TO GARDENERS. The “Farm and Garden,” an American newspaper, as far back as 1863 published the following fact which still holds good today:— Upon the growth of plants the moon exercises a remarkable influence. The chemical action of light is necessary to their principal work, the absorption of carbon from the carbonic acid gas of the- atmosphere. This woi’k all plants carry on during the day, and in the night they sleep except when the moon shines. She wakes then and sets them at work. So the farmers who plant only just before the full moon are right, and the scoffers who call them superstitions are themselves the foolish ones. For, if sown before or near new moon, the young plants get above ground just at the full, when the tender things need sleep. But if sown just before the full they come up about new moon, pass their babyhood under the soothing influence of dark nights, and when the full moon comes are study urchins able to work night and day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1942, Page 4
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177PLANT BEFORE FULL MOON Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1942, Page 4
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