Biodynamic Agriculture at Portugal, The effect of moon on plant growth

Aqui está como rabanetes semeados ao longo de meio mês, em diferentes fases lunares e signos lunares, crescem de diferentes maneiras. Os resultados são espantosos. Ver post anterior para saber como a experiência foi desenhada. Nada disto é novo; já Maria Thun estudou estas coisas há mais de 20 anos.

Here are how radish responded in incredible ways to moon phases and signs. Apparently, the results are very clear and awesome. Please check the previous post for seeing how the experiment was designed. Nothing of this is new, Maria Thun has already studied this 20 years ago.


Radish seem to grow well during in Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces and Taurus. They grow worst around new moon and when seeded in Aries. Higher leaf growth was obtained in Aquarius and Pisces (air and water).



Incredibly, plants grow taller and taller from new moon to full moon (0.5cm to 3cm), despite the fact that those radish seeded on new moon were planted first!
Full moon (or ascendent moon) tends to pull plants towards higher vegetative growth.


Radish seeded on days with moon passing in earth signs yielded best. Radish seeded on watery sign days also yielded good compared to others.


Spinach, on another way, grew better during Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces (mostly watery signs) and badly in Aries. The plants also grew much taller around full moon compared to new moon.


In left side those were the first radish, seeded around new moon. In right, those seeded around full moon. Despite the fact that the second ones were seeded about two weeks later, they grew much faster and developing taller plants. If this is good or not for high-quality edible roots, this will be a future question of research.


Here we can see carrots seeded on earth day compared to others and cultured with same soil but containing horsetail and sand (which contains silica that aids the plants to develop it long roots): the different is clearly visible!