gardening

The very first Jack Horkheimer Star Hustler episode (1976) mentioned planting crops with respect to Moon phases. I got to thinking, and most googling turned up sites like this, which make claims like ...which sounds like a lot of woo to me. Even Wikipedia says, under Agricultural astrology...

I'm trying to convert a sad back yard of hard clay into a garden. To coax a few crops into growing this year I must use chemical fertilizers, but don't expect results to be very good until next year when I'll have made and worked in a few cubic yards of home-made compost. It's terrible...

...getcha pitchforks and torches here!!!