Biodynamic Preparations

Question 1

BD Prep 500

Answer 1

Description: Manure from a lactating cow placed inside a cowhorn and buried during winter.

Use: Stimulates soil microbial life and encourages root growth.

Application Method: Applied in spring and fall, preferably within half an hour of sunset, on recently worked soil.

Question 2

What constitutes BD Prep 500?

Answer 2

Manure from a lactating cow is placed inside a cow horn and buried during winter

Question 3

When is the BD Prep 500 field spray applied?

Answer 3

In the spring and fall, preferably within half an hour of sunset on recently worked soil.

Question 4

What is BD Prep 500 used for?

Answer 4

Stimulates soil microbial life and encourages root growth.

Question 5

BD Prep 501

Answer 5

Description: Paste of silica (powdered quartz) and water placed inside a cowhorn and buried during summer.

Use: Encourages photosynthesis and ripening.

Application Method: Applied in late spring or early summer, preferably at sunrise and never on young vines.

Must be applied after Prep 500.

Question 6

What is the primary component of BD Prep 501?

Answer 6

Silica

Question 7

What is silica?

Answer 7

powdered quartz

Question 8

In what season is the BD Prep 501 field spray applied?

Answer 8

In the late spring or early summer, preferably at sunrise and never on young vines. Must be applied after BD prep 500.

Question 9

What is BD Prep 501 used for?

Answer 9

to encourage photosynthesis and ripening

Question 10

BD Prep 508

Answer 10

Description: Horsetail plant boiled into a tea.

Use: Fights fungal infections.

Application Method: Can be combined with fungicide and sprayed on the vine or fermented first and sprayed on the soil during the waxing moon.

Must be applied after Preps 500 and 501.

Question 11

What is the primary component of BD Prep 508?

Answer 11

Horsetail plant

-boiled into a tea

Question 12

What is the use of BD Prep 508?

Answer 12

It is used to fight fungal infections.

Question 13

How can BD Prep 508 be applied?

Answer 13

• Combined with fungicide and sprayed on the vine

- fermented first and sprayed on the soil during the waxing moon

Question 14

BD Prep 502

Answer 14

Description: Yarrow flowers stuffed into deer bladder, dried in the sun, and buried over winter.

Use: Aids in the absorption of nutrients from the soil.

Question 15

Which biodynamic preparation utilizes Yarrow flowers?

Answer 15

BD Prep 202

Question 16

What affect does BD Prep 502 have on the soil?

Answer 16

it aids in the absorption of nutrients (from the soil)

Question 17

Which biodynamic preparation stabilized calcium and nitrogen?

Answer 17

BD Prep 503

Question 18

BD Prep 503

Answer 18

Description: Chamomile flowers stuffed into a cow intestine, dried in the sun, and buried over winter.

Use: Stabilizes calcium and nitrogen.

Question 19

BD Prep 504

Answer 19

Description: Stinging nettles buried for a year.

Use: Helps breakdown materials inside compost.

Question 20

BD Prep 505

Answer 20

Description: Oak bark stuffed inside the skull of a farm animal and stored somewhere moist for the winter.

Use: Reduces soil acidity, wards off disease, and prevents excessive plant growth.

Question 21

What are the 3 effects of BD Prep 505?

Answer 21

• reduced soil acidity
• wards off disease
• prevents excessive plant growth

Question 22

BD Prep 506

Answer 22

Description: Dandelion flowers stuffed into the connective tissue of a cow’s stomach, dried in the sun, and buried over the winter.

Use: Aids uptake of silica and potassium.

Question 23

What is the primary component of BD prep 506?

Answer 23

dandelion flowers

Question 24

What biodynamic preparation aids in the uptake of silica and potassium?

Answer 24

BD Prep 506

Question 25

BD Prep 507

Answer 25

Description: Valerian flowers, pressed into a juice.

Use: Heats compost and adds phosphorous.

Question 26

How is BD Prep 507 applied?

Answer 26

Prep 507 is prepared as a tea, dynamized and sprayed onto the compost pile.

Question 27

What affect does BD prep 507 have on compost?

Answer 27

• It heats it

- it adds phosphorus

Question 28

How are the biodynamic compost preparations applied?

Answer 28

Used to treat compost six months before the compost is applied in the vineyard. Preps 502-506 are added individually to holes in the compost pile.

Prep 507 is prepared as a tea, dynamized and sprayed onto the compost pile.