Greetings fellow dialists, There is a long-standing tradition of sowing new potatoes on Good Friday. Christian virtue, or had farmers noticed that this was always at a time of full moon? I buy organic flour in bags marked biodynamic. On enquiry it turns out that the wheat is sown at the full moon. So lunar sowing still goes on, even commercially. May I add it makes pretty good bread. By the way I was hugely impressed by the complex horizontal sun and moon dial cut in slate by Isaac Morris in 1803, which members of the British Sundial Society saw on our recent tour of North Wales. The moon (apart from tides) profoundly affects many marine communities, e.g. palolo worm breeding in the Pacific and West Indies and the breeding shoals of herring in the North Sea. Frank 55N 1W -- Frank Evans
