[NatureNS] phases of the moon

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Another place where the moon enters in to the farming picture is in the 
making of saur krout. The cabbage is cut up and placed in a barrel, salted, 
and then pounded.  This should be done on the new moon, and as the moon gets 
larger the pickle rises on the krout until at the full moon the krout is 
swimming in pickle. After the full moon it disappears, then rises again as 
the moon increases in size. I presume that the process is the same as the 
reason the moon influences the tides.
      What I never understood is why, after you had let the krout go through 
this process for a couple of months you could put the barrel outdoors and 
let the krout freeze, and the pickle would never rise again.

Roland

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