SEASONAL NOTES  

Information for planting dates and activities is gathered from the 2008 Antipodean

Astro Calendar by Brian Keats. If you don’t already have a calendar and would like one, they are available from the office.

Optimal times for application of the biodynamic soil sprays are the seasons of Autumn and Spring.

These soil sprays are applied late in the afternoon as the dew begins to fall, and are best used when there is moisture present in the soil (e.g. after rain).The atmospheric sprays are applied in the early morning.

Using Moon opposition Saturn 

Optimal times (using the 2 days prior to)

July 2008 -           

Sunday 20th to Monday 21st

August 2008   -     

Saturday 16th to Sunday 17th

(node at 20.26on 16th)

September 2008 -

Friday 12th to Saturday 13th

(node at 04.25 on 13th)

Note: It is best to try to avoid activities some hours either side of the node. It would therefore be advisable in these Moon opposition Saturn time frames to put out your sprays using the first evening and morning sequence in the indications given for each month.

Using Descending Moon for soil sprays

July 2008 -

Tuesday 1st

Wednesday 16th to Monday 28th

August 2008 -

Tuesday 12th to Monday 25th

September 2008 -

Monday 8th to Sunday 21st

Other factors to consider for soil sprays

– Is the moon waning?

– Is the moon in an earth sign?

Using Ascending Moon for atmospheric sprays

July 2008 -

Thursday 3rd to Tuesday 15th

Wednesday 30th to Thursday 31st

August 2008 -

Wednesday 13th to Monday 25th

September 2008 -

Monday 1st to Monday 8th

Monday 22nd to Tuesday 30th

Other factors to consider for atmospheric sprays

– Is the moon waxing?

Peppering Dates for Weeds and Best Dates for Planting Fruit and Seed Crops

Using Moon in Leo

July 2008 -

12.08 Sunday 6th  -  17.55 Tuesday 8th

August 2008 -

22.09 Saturday 2nd - 03.04 tuesday 5th

07.23 Saturday 30th - 24.00 Sunday 31st

September 2008 -

00.00 Monday 1st - 12.25 Monday 1st

14.45 Friday 26th - 20.41 Sunday 28th

Brian Keats suggests making plant peppers is best toward full moon but not after.

Peppers

Larval Stage Insect Peppers

July 2008 - 1st to 31st

August 2008 - 1st to 17th

For details on making peppers and potentising peppers see the Biodynamic Resource Manual

Note: Questions are often asked about which sign is the correct one to use when planting out. As a general rule, you plant out in the sign that represents the part of the plant you wish to harvest. For example, carrots and potatoes are planted in root signs, lettuce and cabbages in leaf signs, tomatoes and fruiting crops in fruit signs and flowering crops including such things as broccoli in flower signs.