Astrological Gardening: The Ancient Wisdom of Successful Planting & Harvesting by the Stars

by Louise Riotte

Book Overview

Astrological gardening has been practiced for centuries, and author Louise Riotte's 40 years of planetary planting have confirmed its usefulness. She identifies ideal astrological conditions for planting and harvesting a wide range of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882665618
• ISBN13: 9780882665610
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A little outdated, but not much.

I mainly wanted this book for information on planting by moon signs. There was information in this book, but not exactly what I was wanting. The book included a lot of extraneous information. However, for the price, it was a good value.

Astrological Gardening

The book has good information if you are interested in planting and other gardening activities by the star signs, moon phase, etc.

Astrological gardening; abused, bruised and abandoned timeless knowledge

This is a considerate and commonsense book that will sway many critiques of Astrology, and aid people's understandings of gardening greatly. It really is tragic how many people dismiss astrology as everything from nonsense to evil. The introduction introduces sufficient astrology and its origins etc, yet does not delve into the complexities that will dazzle the non-astrologer. The unfortunate things about this book is that the information can be a bit overwhelming at points, and will require more than a couple of sit-downs to digest. Also it has much information on useful plants, making it great for the self-sufficient or even those with a hobby vegge-patch, though not a great deal on plants kept for other reasons. This is besides the point as I really like this book and will keep it on my shelf and get friends to read it etc. The rewards of reading is the forgotten, timeless information of the world and mind.

My all-time favorite gardening book

It's not as weird as it sounds. Okay, there are references to astrological connections and such, but there's also theory around water levels and tides driven by the moon. At any rate, I have been through the Master Gardener program and tried various methods to increase yield (red plastic mulch for tomatoes...you name it, I've tried it), yet the planting scheme outlined here has created the best gardens of all. A combination of companion planting (expounded on more in Carrots Love Tomatoes and Roses Love Garlic) and planting by moon phase and sign, this guide brings great results.