Aceituna

Hello,
I´m spanish farmer.
I´m looking for information about moon influence.
I´m composting manure and I want to know the better moment baring in mind the moon.
Can somebody help me?
Thank you very much

Manuel Cervera
cherrita@cherrita.com
Cherrita

sanmannor

look in to Biodynamics... the steiner institute publishes a calender on this type of thing
personally i have no idea as to whether it does anything. i would love to see experiments looking at two piles started at different times.


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the shire

brisk222

Composting is the decomposition of plant remains and other once-living materials to make an earthy, dark, crumbly substance that is excellent for adding to houseplants or enriching garden soil. It is the way to recycle your yard and kitchen wastes, and is a critical step in reducing the volume of garbage needlessly sent to landfills for disposal. It's easy to learn how to compost.

There are a tremendous number of options for containing your compost. Some people choose to go binless, simply building a compost pile in a convenient spot on the ground. Others build bins from materials such as recycled pallets, or two-by-fours and plywood. And, of course, there are many commercial bins on the market.

Composting is not a new idea. In the natural world, composting is what happens as leaves pile up on the forest floor and begin to decay. Eventually, the rotting leaves are returned to the soil, where living roots can finish the recycling process by reclaiming the nutrients from the decomposed leaves. Composting may be at the root of agriculture as well. Some scientists have speculated that as early peoples dumped food wastes in piles near their camps, the wastes rotted and were terrific habitat for the seeds of any food plants that sprouted there. Perhaps people began to recognize that dump heaps were good places for food crops to grow, and began to put seeds there intentionally.