Gwydion's Moon Planting Guide

The Definitive Moon Planting Manual

 

You can start Moon planting at any time of year, and plan for all years ahead with this little book. Recommended in BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time factsheet shortly after publication.

The Guide makes a fascinating and useful present for any organic gardener. It will show you how to plan sowing and planting times during each lunar cycle, making use of the extra light and more subtle effects for vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruit, trees, arable crops and all other plants.

It describes the genuine original traditional method, by far the most tried and tested system, entirely compatible with all organic and bio-dynamic regimes in place of the less effective 'new age' methods sometimes employed. The Guide explains how the lunar cycle affects germinating and growing plants, so you will understand why the traditional method has been valued across many cultures by generations of gardeners and farmers.

 

Monthly fill-in boxes to enter times of the Moon's phases and so on, with step-by-step directions, are used to plan optimal planting/sowing times for all types of plants.

 

The Guide even explains how to estimate the Moon's phase whenever the Moon is visible, so you can use exactly the same method as those ancient peoples to plan the most effective 'primary' technique for Moon sowing & planting - and you'll learn the age-old skill of estimating 'by sight' the next full or new Moon period! The Guide also has half-monthly sowing listings of virtually every vegetable grown in Britain throughout the year, outdoors and under glass, so you can plan your seed buying.

 

The Guide includes notes on organic pest control, companion & incompatible plants, crop rotation and other details. You'll learn a genuine ancient skill with a scientific basis, sowing & planting to benefit from nature's cycles. It's an absolute bargain for a lifetime's gardening by the Moon.

 

 A5 format (closed) written & published by J. R. Gower. ISBN 0 9523424 0 5

In response to various enquiries regarding Moon planting over the years, I wrote a leaflet which is likely to answer your questions too. It will also give you useful background information about Moon planting generally. The same text is available here - I do hope you find it useful!

For Moon Planting in the Southern Hemisphere and so on, you'll find essential information on our 'News' page - click on 'News' at the top of this page.

   For 'Gwydion's Planting Guide' readers - Annual 'make it easy' Year Sheets!

The Year Sheet for 2010 is available now -


Many of our customers send for each year's Year Sheet. These provide the fill-in monthly timetable for Moon Planting throughout the year (as in the Guide) already completed.

Though you can use the Guide without this, for the further refined 'secondary technique' you need to know when the Moon enters zodiacal signs every 2 or 3 days; it provides all the year's times in the easiest possible way! It's available for each year from the preceding July for £1.50.

2010 Year Sheets - if you'd like any further information, just go to the 'Contact' link (above) and it will send me your message.