To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting/planting by the moon and stars
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 23:04:33 -0500
Re Barbara's comments:
"Don't plant, graft, etc. on Good Friday. Not unless
you like re-planting and graft failures!"
That's interesting, because here in Tennessee it was traditional to plant
beans on Good Friday. I often wonder about that, as it is almost always too
cold these days to plant that day, but according to an excellent
meteorologist, records show that our springs have been getting colder and
our autumns warmer for about 50 years.
To me, Easter appears to be a planting holiday. The first Sunday after
the first full moon after the spring equinox. The last really bad
convection frost is likely to be the full moon following the equinox. By
the time the next one comes around, it should have warmed up too much to
frost, here anyway. Rome is not all that far north by European standards,
so I think they too would have had their last frost about that time.
Oh, but that's right. Dennis Norton has reminded me that if you are
Catholic it's a different Good Friday that you shouldn't graft on from the
Good Friday that you shouldn't graft on if you are Orthodox. Donna