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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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June 12, 1991
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GEOTROPE.ASC
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This is a article that was in the Dallas Morning News on May 10,
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1991. It was written by Anne Raver from the New York Times News
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Service. The House & Garden Staff of the Dallas Morning News also
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contributed to this report.
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SHEER LUNACY?
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Growing flowers and vegetables by the moon is a centuries old
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tradition, but does it really work and should we try it?
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Moon gardening: More than lore?
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By Anne Raver
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New York Times News Service
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The last full moon was two Sundays ago. And all over the
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country, moon gardeners were planting by it - corn, pole beans,
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sweet peas - because they know that a full moon will make corn grow
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tall and pull a vining bean right up the pole.
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"When I was 4, I'd go out with my grandmother, and we'd always
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try to plant potatoes on the full moon," said Michael Petitt, 25,
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who grew up in the hills of Kentucky. "And we'd plant pole beans and
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corn and grasses on the full moon, for faster germination."
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Mr. Petitt is an extension agent for Boyd County in Kentucky.
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He is working on his master's degree in horticulture. But he still
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plants by the moon.
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"I think that geotropism - the effect of gravity on plants - is
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greater on the full moon," he said. "But I think it also affects
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some biochemical process. Of course I'd never say this to a client
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on the phone."
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Moon planters believe that the same gravitational force that
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pulls the tides, the same cosmic rhythms that draw a horsehoe crab
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ashore to mate, also cause crops, especially those that bear above
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ground, to leap right out of the earth.
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And conversely, when the moon is on the wane, as it is now, and
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its light and gravitational pull are on the decrease, the earth's
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gravity kicks in again, and roots burrow happily into the ground.
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But don't plant anything when the moon is absolutely dark. The
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next new moon is Tuesday, and that's when plants should rest. The
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new moon also is a good time to kill weeds because they won't grow
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back.
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The world of hard science hasn't tried to study this stuff.
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"It's mythology," said Cynthia Rosenzweig, and agronomist at NASA'S
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Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan. "There has to be a
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physical reason why the moon's different phases would affect soil
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properties, soil temperature, moisture content precipitation, which
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are the actual physical factors that make seeds germinate. And that
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isn't documentable."
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He colleague Frank Abramopoulos, an astrophysicist, agreed.
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"The tidal force - the gravitational pull of the moon - would be
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there, but a level smaller than would affect any biochemical
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processes," he said.
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There was a long pause when he was asked if the moon, passing
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through the sign of the zodiac, could affect plants.
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"The moon is 238,000 miles away from us, which is very close,"
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he said politely. "The nearest star is four light-years away, and
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that light would not have an effect on plant life."
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Scientists are so literal. That's why they're scientists.
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They should look into it, Mr. Petitt said. But his people have
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never worried about proof. It was there on the table, in a mess of
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beans. In turnips bigger than grapefruits.
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"We never said why; we just knew," Mr. Petitt said. "We didn't
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question. The people who did question, they didn't have a crop."
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There's a lot you can do if you read the moon right.
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"Me and my grandpap, we'd cut locust for fence posts when the
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moon was three-quarters full," Mr. Petitt said. "We'd cut them
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green, leave the bark on and put them right in the ground. Then
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Grandpap would pour about a gallon of water on them. And a month
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later those posts would be sprouting. That's no lie, ma'am."
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Mr. Petitt said people would come to look at those posts and
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ask how it was done. "But if they didn't do it on the three-quarters
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moon, it wouldn't work," he said.
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Now the moon is on the wane. "Flowering bulbs and vegetables
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THAT BEAR CROPS BELOW GROUNDbelow ground should be planted during
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the DARK of the Moon," says the 1991 Old Farmer's Almanac. "That
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is, from the day after it is full to the day before it is new
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again."
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Corda Kindall, 92, the sole resident of Olga, Mo. said that's
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right: "Anything like radishes, onions, that grow underneath the
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ground, why you plant them on a dark moon, and then they'll grow
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larger and not be all tops. If you plant on the new moon, they'll
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grow tail and bloom, but the radishes won't be good. Same with
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potatoes. Plant them on the dark moon and they won't all go to top."
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Mrs. Kindall planted her morning glory seeds, which had been
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soaking in a jar, just before the moon was full. "And I'm going to
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go out tomorrow and plant me some beans," she said.
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It's not good to question these things too closely. The
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contradictions, for instance: Mr. Petitt plants potatoes on the full
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moon, Mrs. Kindall on the dark.
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But that's the way it is with moon gardeners. You can hardly
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find two who plant the same way. And they all think they're right,
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because whichever way they choose, it works.
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"I always plant potatoes on Good Friday, because an older
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gentleman taught me to do it that way, and he'd always done it that
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way, and I always get more potatoes than anybody else, so there,"
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said Miriam Dunlap, who farms 80 acres outside Des Moines. "My
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husband's family always said, `Good seed, good potatoes, Good
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Friday,' I swear it's just a reason to force you to get out there in
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the mud to plant."
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Maybe that's basically what it is, a ritual of chores, a giant
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almanac as old as the Pyramids and the rising of the Dog Star, which
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has marked the onset of spring, and spring planting, since the first
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man, or woman, first put a seed in the ground.
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Even the gardener in Dr. Rosenzweig, the Goddard agronomist,
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believes, a little. "Even though I don't believe it scientifically.
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I think the ancient traditions are wonderful," she said. "And who
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knows: There are more things out there than are known by science."
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VANGARD NOTE:
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It is amazing there are no scientists willing to make a study
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of this. If under control conditions, the moon does have an effect
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on the growing of plants, this could change the way that we farm.
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Or is it possible the scientific community does not want to
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admit, that the moon's gravity has an effect on PLANTS and HUMANS.
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This would be an excellent experiment for one of you to do. Or
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for someone in college. Better yet, how about getting one of your
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kids to do this as a school science fair project?
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Now if we were living on the moon and were to study the effects
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of the Earth gravity on plants growing on the moon. That would mean
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we would have to title this article ` EARTH GARDENING SHEER LUNACY!'
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Submitted By; Ronald Barker
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Vangard Sciences
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Addenda
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Is it not interesting that the effects of gravity seem to be
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reduced when the moon is waxing or in the full moon condition.
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If regarding this with the PULL GRAVITY theory, then the moon
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would partially cancel the earth gravity by pulling mass in its
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direction. This article therefore not only leads to ecological
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improvements but opens up some interesting thoughts regarding
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gravity.
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There are indications that moonlight is polarized. Is it
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possible that the light reflected from the moon might have a
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spin whose direction is dependent on whether the moon is waxing
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or waning?
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Page 3
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As an interesting note, in the metaphysical literature,
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"scryers" or "crystal gazers" are advised to NOT allow their
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crystal to be exposed to the light of the moon as it supposedly
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interferes with the images seen within the crystal. (the
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method of "cleansing" the crystal is to hold it under cool or
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cold running water)
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There are strange effects involving counter-clockwise and
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clockwise spins, known as Coriolis forces when applied to spin
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in the upper and lower hemispheres of the Earth.
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Does this possibly indicate something relating to anti-gravity
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having to do with a counter-clockwise spin? Note many files on
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Keelynet which seem to indicate such a tendency, particularly
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observations noted when viewing the Meyer Chronicles (a UFO
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documentary on Swiss farmer Billy Meier).
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In addition, the work of Davis and Rawls on magnetic fields
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tends to support this observation. South Pole energy has a
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counter-clockwise spin and causes mass to expand, while North
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Pole energy has a clockwise spin and causes mass to contract.
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The file RFP on KeelyNet gives more on this although there are
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some discrepancies which have yet to be resolved. RFP was
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written several years ago and needs to be updated, which I have
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not had time to do.
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Jerry W. Decker
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If you have comments or other information relating to such topics
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as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the
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Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page.
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Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet
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