When Should I Spray Biodynamic Preparations?

Resolving some questions about timing

One question I’ve frequently encountered is: when should we spray out the biodynamic preparations?

I do not think it is in the spirit of biodynamics or anthroposophy to give a rigid time because the spiritual day is a rhythmic phenomenon. Daylight hours expand during the summer and shrink during the winter, so a precise time is not equally applicable to both winter and summer for spraying.

Lili Kolisko affirms in her work that the spiritual beginning of the year is in the autumn. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer mirrors this idea when he says that problems in the orchard arise from things the farmer did wrong last year (or even earlier).

The Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, begins in the autumn just as their Sabbath begins with the sundown on the previous day. Christian liturgical traditions also maintain part of this idea, consider…