Dear Readers ,
The decent affair about horticulture is there is exemption to experiment ; if you do n’t care a particular technique , you’re able to determine another . This is how we have make out to biodynamic horticulture , some things work on for us , some do n’t and we have to try out and try new things to retrieve out what forge for us and our garden .
The biodynamic readying I ordered come from the Josephine Porter Institute , along with plenty of reading material about the usage and computer memory of the preparations .
Josephine Porter Institute biodynamic preparations order
The homework are enough to treat an acre of land ; we do n’t have that much body politic therefore , we must take the size into account and conform the quantities we dispense for the small patch we are raise biodynamically . I tend to bulk large on the cautious side with appraise out the preparations by using a modest amount in a number more water even though the JPI recommends“the full unit be used to cover your garden area no matter how small . ”We did habituate the entire quantity according to the directions for the biodynamic compost hardening .
The preparations we received are :
500 – Horn ManureTo be used as a spray on the soil before planting . The surface area must have been treated with 502 or 507 before this is used .
501 – Horn SilicaTo be used as a foliar spray once works are established .
502 – YarrowUsed in compost preparations and to handle some plants during the mature season as a tea . It is also used to treat the ground prior to the utilisation of 500 .
503 – ChamomileUsed in compost and to treat some plant during the growing season as a teatime .
504 – NettleUsed in compost and to treat some plants during the growing time of year as a tea .
505 – Oak BarkUsed in compost and to treat some plants during the growing time of year as a tea .
506 – DandelionUsed in compost and to treat some plant during the growing season as a tea .
507 – ValerianUsed in compost discourse by being watered over the whole pile . It can also be used to care for some plants during the produce season as a tea and to deal the soil prior to treatment with the cornet manure .
508 – Horsetail HerbUsed to spray plants during the grow time of year to help forbid fungal emergence .
We also incur a biodynamic compost solidification of the homework which are inserted into the compost pile , compost starter compounds and a field and garden sprayer compound .
I see the preparations as a carrier to unite the cosmic forces ( the moon view ; i.e. leaf day etc . ) with the filth to help bring together concord in the garden . I think JimJim is half await to number home to a wicker effigy burn in the yard to ensure a good harvest , he sees the method as being moderately pagan with make up the prep or potions as he calls them . I should probably not pretend I ’m a Shakespearean witch whilst shift the preparations and the Wicked Witch of the West when transplanting and sowing . Apparently saying “ arise my pretties , grow ” is more or less worrying . ( I had well not mention the honest-to-god English practice session of Wassailing in the orchards to chamfer the bad emotional state to ascertain a good harvest time the following year , that one might not go down well ) !
Back on with the post at script , how did we use the preparations we have get ? Well , so far we have used the valerian , the horn manure and horn silica in the garden and the compost set up in the compost bus .
To use these in the garden we carried out the following :
The first step in the readying of the stain is to spray with valerian provision ( 507 ) . In our garden , we made a valerian Camellia sinensis with hot water in a 16 oz cup then diluted this down with water supply into a 2 gal lachrymation can then water the area 3 time .
The 2nd step is tomake up the prep 500and spray this on the growing country three time . This was done the comply day for some sowings and on the same day more of late . It should be take note that the plant life farm on the filth where the horn manure was spray the day after the valerian seem to be germinating and growing quicker than those where both preparations were enforce to the region on the same day .
Third dance step was inseminate seed and plant just after the software of trumpet manure .
Preparation 501 was spray once the plants were found .
Any supernumerary spray was used on the compost heap or on the trees in our yard .
I should really mention that there are a few thing which we have done “ awry ” to the purist but so far , we have n’t see any utmost ill effects :
