Smallholder this month Helen Babbs takes another look at growing your own guided by the moon.
As a fairly conventional smallholder, I had never given gardening by the moon much thought, considering it a little too alternative. Until, that is, the day a friend who runs a successful small farm calmly mentioned she would be planting her beetroot that week, because the moon was waxing. She is not, "too alternative," nor was there any doubt that her beetroot does much better than mine, even with the similar soil, methods, and even when growing the same cultivars.