Planetary Planting: A Guide to Organic Gardening by the Signs of the Zodiac and the Phases of the Moon

by Louise Riotte

Octavo, pp. 352, planting by the phases of the moon and the zodiac

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 30, 1976

About the author

Beloved Storey author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. She wrote 12 books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes, which has sold approximately 515,000 copies. Her father taught her to believe in and practice astrology, while her mother was a practicing herbalist. Together they inevitably influenced her life and her books, Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and her most recent book, Raising Animals by the Moon. Her own line drawings are included in all her books. Before authoring books, Riotte was a ghost writer for Simon & Schuster and for Jerry Baker's radio gardening show, and she also wrote a number of articles for Organic Gardening. Riotte took pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma, which her son Eugene helped care for in her later years.

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Reviews

[Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

having been published in 1975, i thought for sure this would be a hippie book but it completely surprised me. the author was an elderly woman living with her husband in rural oklahoma. the daughter of german farmer immigrants, she had grown up observing her parents work their land in accordance with the positions of the planets and then as an adult decided to study these age-old methods from a scientific perspective to find out why they seem to work. she's smart and witty and it's a great book.