Does Planting by the Signs Really Work? - FHC Q & A

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

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  • @atexinc.5472
    @atexinc.5472 10 месяцев назад +16

    I agree with you. I’m 52 and for the most part I have been very happy with my harvest. The biggest secret is to get off the couch and put seeds in the earth

  • @georgeschmitt8205
    @georgeschmitt8205 10 месяцев назад +7

    My old neighbor had a great garden. Occasionally he'd come over to raid the manure pile for his garen. I asked him once if he planted by the moon and he said "The moon doesn't help my garden like sweat and horse S#!t does so I don't worry about it."

  • @kenthorsen4558
    @kenthorsen4558 10 месяцев назад +10

    The only sign that I go by is the yellow post it note that my wife puts on my "to do" list. And when she says till the garden I do it and when she says plant the veggies I plant. So far she is right ! Thanks Pa 😊

  • @farmyourbackyard2023
    @farmyourbackyard2023 10 месяцев назад +5

    My opinion about your presentation is that you didn’t just study for a few days to present this information. This sounds like something that you’ve known for a long time and we’re able to communicate succinctly. I appreciate that.

  • @LittleJordanFarm
    @LittleJordanFarm 10 месяцев назад +4

    Very well said. And i agree with the moon phases. But miss them at times and God gives the increase. In tennessee we are having dogwood winter right now. Waiting for blackberry winter to put out my tomatoes etc...probably mid may. May the blessings of deut. 28 be upon you yours and your farm.

  • @davidcreamer8792
    @davidcreamer8792 10 месяцев назад +4

    Amen! Well said and well explained! Thank you for your videos and for sharing your knowledge!!! Most of all, thank you for being faithful and including God and Biblical truth in your videos!!!!!!

  • @royevans7793
    @royevans7793 10 месяцев назад +2

    I've never planted by any signs. I usually plant when I have the time to do it, and have for the most part had a good garden. The only time I've had a bad garden is when I planted too early, or too late. Usually too late.

  • @ErinOBrien-io9qm
    @ErinOBrien-io9qm 10 месяцев назад +2

    You are so fun. I love how you tiptoe through this topic. I had heard about moon phases but not signs. I quasi set by the moon.
    Here’s the thing, setting by the signs may be complicated given where you leave. It really doesn’t matter what signs is going on, if you are at 8000’ in the Rockies, and you try to plant when the stars say so, you might find that you don’t have a garden.
    Humans form patterns where things are observed to happen regularly so there is a kernel of truth in all mythology.

  • @Rosethatwantstomove
    @Rosethatwantstomove 10 месяцев назад +1

    I've debated rather it's spiritual or something else. I'm still really undecided. Leaning on spiritual side somewhat. A flood took out 6 raised garden beds all 6 were 300g stock tanks. My open bottom raised beds were all planted but 2- 10 open beds

  • @davidjohanson8964
    @davidjohanson8964 10 месяцев назад +13

    Love how the Bible is full of agricultural images and references. Like so many today, I learned precious little growing up of how to garden, for example, but when I started doing it, I began to understand so much more what the Bible means by what it says .

  • @TheJaneo7
    @TheJaneo7 10 месяцев назад +2

    Could you talk about an area that is mostly too wet.

    • @farmhandscompanion
      @farmhandscompanion  10 месяцев назад +1

      Tell me more about what you'd like to hear, Jane

  • @LittleVernonFarm
    @LittleVernonFarm 5 месяцев назад

    My respect for you keeps growing.

  • @Travecmo
    @Travecmo 8 месяцев назад

    I always appreciate your tact in these matters. I'm undecided seems like I just get in when I fit in.

  • @jvin248
    @jvin248 10 месяцев назад +2

    Last year I thought I'd try out the moon phases gardening and ... six weeks of drought (no germination) that I would have avoided had I used 'the regular methods'. This year I'm planning on multiple plantings to avoid 'betting the farm' on a single technique.

  • @EveryBlossomMatters
    @EveryBlossomMatters 10 месяцев назад +1

    Hey Gary!! I found the topic of your video today quite interesting! And in fact just this morning daddy called me and said " the hickory is puttin' out so I think it's safe to plant the tomatoes" meaning the danger of frost is probably over. We don't plant by the signs but daddy does go by stuff like I just mentioned. As a loose guide. Have a good day Gary and I guess daddy and I will be planting all those tomatoes I've started in my greenhouse now! I have extra by the way! 😊

    • @farmhandscompanion
      @farmhandscompanion  10 месяцев назад +5

      Hey Lori, that whole thing of watchin' what's happening around you in nature and the order in which things happen each year is called "phenology"-which I use heavily in combination with the moon phases. (I'm planning on doing a whole 'nother show on phenology one of these days.)

  • @Nathan-d8d
    @Nathan-d8d 5 месяцев назад

    Very good description of the moon and cycle for what and how!. My experience that made me question things was I had cut down about 13 sweet gum over the course of month I would process the wood for burning, about a year later I noticed some was rotting, while other pieces still solid, it was all stacked the same and covered the same the only difference was when it was cut . So I think there is something to this, but we shouldn't let it consume our life

  • @IOSALive
    @IOSALive 10 месяцев назад +1

    farmhandscompanion, Subscribed because your videos are so much fun!

  • @deborahdanhauer8525
    @deborahdanhauer8525 10 месяцев назад +1

    Oh wow Pa Mac, I’m so deep into metaphysics I tend to drizzle it anywhere I go lol! But don’t be mad, we can still be friends🤗
    My Grandmother always planted by the signs and the moon, and her garden was huge and plentiful. I’ve known many who didn’t and there’s were also huge and plentiful. Knowledge is crucial in gardening but a little extra help doesn’t hurt a thing. In my mind there is nothing wrong with astrology and planting by the stars. I know many here disagree and that’s fine. We can still be friends.❤️🤗🐝

    • @farmhandscompanion
      @farmhandscompanion  10 месяцев назад +2

      And friends we will be! Thanks for watchin'', Deborah

    • @deborahdanhauer8525
      @deborahdanhauer8525 10 месяцев назад

      @@farmhandscompanion You’re welcome🤗❤️🐝

  • @bhamby9305
    @bhamby9305 10 месяцев назад +1

    Do some more videos on the milk cow please.

  • @darienconversi5500
    @darienconversi5500 10 месяцев назад

    I've heard a little bit about planting during certain moon phases, but I've never heard about planting by signs. Very interesting stuff Pa Mac! We all love you and everything you stand for

  • @olddawgdreaming5715
    @olddawgdreaming5715 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks Pa Mack, I really see what you are saying and have a little clearer understanding of the planting maybe? Sure enjoyed your explanation. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.

  • @DaleHollowPrimitive
    @DaleHollowPrimitive 10 месяцев назад +6

    Really appreciate that you are keeping the old ways of living alive for the next generation to learn.

  • @GypsyBrokenwings
    @GypsyBrokenwings 10 месяцев назад +1

    Actually, also the electromagnet fields have an affect, as the field flows through the earth... I think we're in for some interesting gardening times... the polar shift is speeding up and the sun phases (suspicious observers on yt) changing, etc.
    I appreciate your wisdom. I'll be saving this and taking notes.

    • @marker113
      @marker113 9 месяцев назад

      Electroculture is a good reference

  • @douglasvantassel8098
    @douglasvantassel8098 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great episode, I find your theological argument sound as well. Thanks for making these!

  • @hermitholllerhomestead2080
    @hermitholllerhomestead2080 10 месяцев назад +1

    I plant, or whatever, when I have the time to do so. I am a biologist and if I tend to base gardening decisions on peer reviewed science when available. Right now, the best thing I can do for my garden is to add organic material and improve soil biology by adding biochar to my to my red clay soil.

    • @hermitholllerhomestead2080
      @hermitholllerhomestead2080 10 месяцев назад

      @Fdeubcfhbbjhfd How can we be buddies, we've never met??? Your comments are all over the place and I really do not know what message you are trying to convey. Enjoy your wood chips.

  • @gonzalezpandura
    @gonzalezpandura 10 месяцев назад

    Love your videos. I missed them. Hope to see more.

  • @johnreno9418
    @johnreno9418 10 месяцев назад

    On a topic that could easily lead on to rabbit trails, you've done a very good job of avoiding the cobwebs. My wife and I plant on the full moon as did my Grandmother, and BTW, we raise goats and do preventative de-worming on a full moon. When we mentioned this in passing to our veterinarian, she agreed that it is a good practice to do so on a full moon. Mankind does not have all the answers.

  • @Ramser03
    @Ramser03 4 месяца назад

    Very wise sir, thank you

  • @AlexPine84
    @AlexPine84 6 месяцев назад

    Thanks

  • @Barbarra63297
    @Barbarra63297 10 месяцев назад +1

    I do have a question, are modern Froes as good (metal strength) as vintage?

  • @bretdavisdmd
    @bretdavisdmd 9 месяцев назад

    Awesome info. Loved it and learned a ton.

  • @leeb4607
    @leeb4607 10 месяцев назад +1

    Seems to me the weather has much more to do with when a good time to plant. Stars will never make my tomatoes survive a frost. Or help in anyway that I can fathom.

  • @JohnDoe-zl6ph
    @JohnDoe-zl6ph 3 месяца назад

    I like doing things by the phases of the moon, sadly I work 40-50 hrs/week and can't always do it. As far as the astrological signs, i don't know enough about it, but I would like to learn. If going by the phases of the moon is ok biblically, then i have a hard time believing that going by the other signes that God has given is not ok.
    Im old enough to be able to agree to disagree and still be friends. Great video as always.

  • @michaelduncan6287
    @michaelduncan6287 10 месяцев назад +6

    The star signs are like the hour hand on a clock and the moon the minute hand,,, they work together. Another apology, the signs are our monthly calendar. Anything that keep you on a cycle works. DON'T go out in the garden on May day and "put out the garden" all in one day, stagger your planting, stagger the harvest.

  • @marker113
    @marker113 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing this!

  • @RGabeDavis
    @RGabeDavis 10 месяцев назад

    Great explanation! Thanks

  • @TheJaneo7
    @TheJaneo7 10 месяцев назад

    Stars msrk season too. Would you plant yomaties when irion is in the sky

  • @BelindaTN
    @BelindaTN 9 месяцев назад

    Loved this. My family gardened by the signs, and raised their livestock by the signs. As I grew up, I began to feel like it was a bit pagan like and not so much God like. And I still wonder about divining for water. As amazing as this “gift” is, it seems a bit pagan witch like. I question what spirit is giving the “water witchers” their gift. What are your thoughts?

    • @farmhandscompanion
      @farmhandscompanion  9 месяцев назад +2

      Great question, Belinda. I think it'll make for a great Q & A show. Thanks so much!

  • @daigledj
    @daigledj 10 месяцев назад +1

    I do wonder if the question wasnt more asking about planting based on natures signs. For example planting carrots when the daffodils bloom.
    One comment on trimming hair by burning. It's actually done that way some places, especially and Ive done it without any pain, especially areas I needed to tape due to injury but didnt want to yank hair with the tape. Kinda brush the flame actoss the hair with the flame ABOVE the skin. It is enough to singe the hair but doesnt burn your skin at all. Burning hair DOES stink to high heaven though.

    • @katie7748
      @katie7748 9 месяцев назад

      I got my hair caught in the back end of a hair dryer once. It smelled horrid and the whole thing started on fire. I turned it off and unplugged it as fast as possible. Lordy, was that a scary moment!

  • @Wilk853
    @Wilk853 10 месяцев назад

    I remember once when I was a kid we were planting potatoes an old farmer down the road stopped by and told us the moon wasn’t right my dad told him we weren’t planting them on the moon they made huge crop. Came up last year to the mercantile would like to see the farm this year

  • @marcusmott9850
    @marcusmott9850 4 месяца назад

    Good information. Where r u located in Arkansas

  • @yunggolem4687
    @yunggolem4687 3 месяца назад

    I doubt there's much effect, but I can see how the "signs" would align with sub-cycles within the greater cycles of the moon, seasons & supercycles occurring over the span of years. Every part of his creation seems to be fractal in that way, mirroring the same shapes at different scales & in each dimension.
    Of course the effect, if there is one, would have essentially nothing to do with actual influence from the stars or signs themselves, they would just be indicators as to what period of a sub-cycle you're in. Aka a "sign". Like how a road sign indicates which road you're on or a mile marker what mile of the highway you're on.

  • @novaspence6
    @novaspence6 6 месяцев назад

    I feel it has something to do with the magnetic fields. Between the seed and moon.? I do know grandpa was right about setting fence posts in one sign it will stay in the ground or come back up. And the board .if you research magnetic fields, frequencies. Everything has a frequency.

  • @floridaknight3052
    @floridaknight3052 10 месяцев назад

    I love the Isaiah verse

  • @TheJaneo7
    @TheJaneo7 10 месяцев назад +1

    Signs mark the seasons too.

  • @Traderjoe
    @Traderjoe 10 месяцев назад

    If there are people who have a problem with it, let them try planting during the off times as an experiment for themselves. If they see there’s a difference in yield, they are welcome to come with with their own explanations as to why one time yields this as opposed to that. And hopefully they won’t be upset when others try and trash their theories.

  • @BrettCales
    @BrettCales 9 месяцев назад

    My grandad believed and followed the signs religiously. He almost always had a good garden and produced a lot. My Great Uncle his brother always said "I plant my seeds in the ground not in the signs" and he almost always had a good garden and produced a lot. I plant when I have time to plant and thats that. So... I have no idea what works!

  • @robertschmidt9296
    @robertschmidt9296 10 месяцев назад +1

    It's my understanding that planting by the zodiac signs uses the astrological and not the astronomical signs. Idk why there is a difference but astrology is a no go. I do go by the moon phase if I can.

  • @gretafields4706
    @gretafields4706 5 месяцев назад

    I dont plant by the moon and stars because I don't know how very well, and don't understsnd well enough. I do plant when there is a full moon hitting wet dirt, or rain expected. However, I study this because we know that stars are different colors and reflect different kinds of radiation. We know the sun radiation helps plants. It makes sense that other kinds of radiation might affect parts of the plant differently.
    I heard one great explanation of how radiation from Jupiter affects plants. Correct me if I am wrong. I understood that Jupiter at a certain time in winter, sends energy to the earth that makes roots grow best in winter. The idea is, the energy hits earth at an angle that drives it deep into the rocks, where it releases charged particles from rocks into the soil so that the plant roots can pick up those particles. I think the particles are like electricity in having plus and minus charges. That really makes sense to me and is not weird. It also makes sense out of what my mother did ... She put rocks into her garden. They were geodes (quartz crystals). Her parents were Germans, and they said that dirt or creeks full of geodes made the best dirt in the world. My grandpa traveled all over the U.S. but settled on a farm because it had skull rocks rolling all over it! When he plowed with his mule, he left these round rocks in the corn! To this day, I set these beautiful rocks in amongst my flowers. And it just struck me-- that flower bed is the best flower bed i have. Only God understands it fully, but Tesla loved quartz because it amplifies a weak current.

  • @gregcripps7291
    @gregcripps7291 10 месяцев назад

    Amen!

  • @larschristiansen1468
    @larschristiansen1468 9 месяцев назад

    In Denmark we have people who grow by the moon.
    Rudolf Steiner was in to that and people still live that way.
    Maybe its the trues or maybe not but if it makes people happy, im fine 😊

    • @katie7748
      @katie7748 9 месяцев назад

      RS was into Gnostic and New-Age beliefs, so I'm not surprised.

  • @Barbarra63297
    @Barbarra63297 10 месяцев назад

    My Grandpa used the moon phases as a guide, ya gotta figure if the moon can pull entire oceans it has to have other affects, some we know about, others we don't.

  • @jameshornby6367
    @jameshornby6367 9 месяцев назад

    Hmmm, no mention of Biodynamics, probably the most developed form of star sign and lunar gardening out there.

  • @ThundertrodPermaculture-mo8xe
    @ThundertrodPermaculture-mo8xe 6 месяцев назад

    This is a vastly different form of "planting by the sighs" then my grandfather taught me He taught things like start plowing when you have snow on thawed out ground, Plant corn when the maple seed fall. Plant garlic the first time you see snow flack that don't stick. sign that nature gives not sign the heavens give

    • @farmhandscompanion
      @farmhandscompanion  6 месяцев назад

      That's correct, ThudertrodPermaculture. The planting by "nature's" signs that your grandfather (and my own parents and grandparents) practiced is an area of study called "phenology", and we'll cover that in more detail at some point later.

  • @TheJaneo7
    @TheJaneo7 10 месяцев назад

    Your videoa are super

  • @TheJaneo7
    @TheJaneo7 10 месяцев назад

    Its just that i see science in these things. The science works but the stars and moon make a grest visible calendar.

  • @rochrich1223
    @rochrich1223 10 месяцев назад +1

    The signs I plant by are things like when the dandelions bloom or the oaks put out leaves.

    • @farmhandscompanion
      @farmhandscompanion  10 месяцев назад +1

      That is an area know as "phenology", which I rely upon quite a lot in combination with the moon phases. I'll be doin' more on phenology in upcoming shows. Thanks, rochrich1223!

  • @emmmmmmma92
    @emmmmmmma92 5 месяцев назад

    also, there are so many variables involved in farming and attributing success to one single factor without even so much as an underlying mechanism that can be described and repeated in a controlled experiment seems pretty dubious. more likely, whatever about planting vy the signs that worked was just the unattributed variables of good ol fashioned hard work, nutrients, water and the one cosmic element we do know makes a difference, that lucky ol sun

  • @stime6472
    @stime6472 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks and we are still friends! LoL

  • @hawkhollar1228
    @hawkhollar1228 10 месяцев назад +3

    Planting by the signs might have worked in the past but not in todays world of weather warfare geoengineering weather modification. You need to adapt to the weather whiplash rollercoaster

    • @hawks9142
      @hawks9142 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yall come up with anything to deny climate change nowadays won't you

    • @katie7748
      @katie7748 9 месяцев назад

      ​@hawks9142 Meanwhile, people like you refuse to look at the plethora of proof that it's being putzed with. I say this out of love, internet stranger: please go educate yourself. There's a TON of info out there. Seek it!

  • @fxm5715
    @fxm5715 10 месяцев назад +1

    Farmers are much like baseball players (and humans in general). We find patterns everywhere, even when there aren't any. I doubt very much that planting based on astrology has any effect on farming, any more than it does on the personalities of humans born when the planet happens to be at any given position in its orbit around the Sun.

  • @TheJaneo7
    @TheJaneo7 10 месяцев назад

    Plant beans when the oak leaves are as big as a squirrels foot

  • @michaeljlangford
    @michaeljlangford 6 месяцев назад

    There is a difference between learning how things work and turning that into a religion. My grandparents planted by the signs and seasons. They also castrated and butchered by the signs. Why? Their ancestors observed and reported what worked and what didn't. One can study Rudolf Steiner's methods, read the "Farmer's Almanac," and experiment with "The North American Maria Thun Biodynamic Almanac" without becoming a believer in the religion of Astrology. Jesus Christ is my Lord and master, but I also study metaphysical things as well. God gave us Astronomy; Astrology comes from somewhere else.

  • @rawbacon
    @rawbacon 10 месяцев назад +1

    Leave my not friendly comment on someone else's video? Now some poor old lady knitting a scarf is going to wonder why I'm calling her Pa and cussing her out about growing Okreee and her crazy astrology theories.

  • @Ham68229
    @Ham68229 10 месяцев назад

    This is really no different than, planting root crops by the light of the moon. While crops above ground, plant before noon.

  • @mikelgeren149
    @mikelgeren149 10 месяцев назад +1

    Jesus talked about the signs , he also talked about the Kenites , but most all christrians don't believe it . Maybe that's a sign . 🤔

  • @nicksfishroom915
    @nicksfishroom915 Месяц назад

    Imaginary glitter dust is evidence of rainbow tailed unicorn sneezes unheard.
    Everyone knows that.

  • @someguydino6770
    @someguydino6770 10 месяцев назад +1

    LOVE the channel; but I say "Please god, protect me.......... from your followers"

  • @TheJaneo7
    @TheJaneo7 10 месяцев назад +1

    Plant beans when the oak leaves are as big as a squirrels foot

    • @farmhandscompanion
      @farmhandscompanion  10 месяцев назад +2

      What you're talkin' about is a field of study known as "phenology", which I rely upon quite a lot in combination with the moon phases. More on that down the road.