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Bought some established sprouts, calabrese, savoy cabbage and lettuce at B&Q to get me started as first year. What can I put into day?
Should I try and get some of them bigger in pots at home first? As not got much space for that.
My plot is a mess so trying to do a bit at a time between work at weekends and now these lighter nights!
Thanks

Not sure if your interested, but this site gives suggestions for biodynamic planting days- Iv started using it when I can http://www.ommas-aarden.net/lunar_garden.07.htm

Interesting site, but I was about to go & sow a load of seeds today & now I have to wait until Tuesday! But it's a good time to cut the lawn so maybe I'll do that instead!

If you can keep the slugs and pigeons off them I would get the brassicas out as soon as possible... they like a long time in a good home...
;D

That link has set me thinking  ???

I basically work to calendar dates which I suppose is loosely connected to the sun/moon.

But my query is; Geographic positions??

Taking the UK; I garden in a more northerly location than some A4A members and more southerly than others and has been mentioned quite a lot recently the weather plays a very large part in our descisions as to when we should plant/sow etc.

But as with many 'general' charts no cosideration of this is taken into account!

For instance the moon is roughly in the same position in John o' Groats or Lands End at any given time of the year ( but weather conditions are not!) so do I follow these lunar charts or my diaries??.

Then when you consider the sun in the Northern hemisphere and the Greenwich mean line

Does someone using the 'lunar system in Greenwich work to to the same dates as someone in Alicante on the Costa blanca (Spain) which is also on the Greenwich mean line  ???  ???

OK I can answer my own query and that is 'let common sense prevail' but it is it any wonder that novices get confused??

What do you think??

This is a useful chart out of one of my beekeeping books.

Great Chart Robert,
I love the little swerve up that takes the 'Normal' to include Liverpool. It justifies my habit of planting earlier than recommended in the North.
I have always realised that I cannot compete with Cornwall.

http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments1_homepage.html

I love the way the South of England is characterized as "normal"- not been my experience! :)

Whoever made it must have lived in the south! The book I got it from came out in 1985, but it was adapted from a Reader's Digest book, 'The Gardening Year', and I don't know the date of that. I'd have thought the relationships woiuld hold true, even if 'normal' is unquantifiable these days.