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Recently, researchers have been kept busy picking lettuces under cover of darkness, but there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this (46. APPEAR) bizarre experiment. Tests have shown that the vegetables picked at night stayed fresh (47. CONSIDER) longer than those picked during the day, though the reason for this improved (48. LONG) is unclear. Lunar gardeners claim to have known about the (49. BENEFIT) effects of nocturnal vegetable management for years, and those gardeners who believe in environmentally friendly organic methods see the idea of working with the moon’s influence as a continuation of their principles. They claim to be following a tradition, long-established in various parts of the world, of working in harmony with the moon’s (50. GRAVITY) pull. In England, lunar gardening reached its zenith in the 16th century, but the vagaries of the (51. PREDICT) climate meant that it survived only as part of an oral folklore tradition. (52. CONFUSE), several different and sometimes contradictory systems are practised today. Although all of them focus on the effects of moonlight and the moon’s pull on the Earth’s water, the exact science remains controversial. There are some (53. HORTICULTURE) who regard the ideas with (54. SCEPTIC). Others, however, are more encouraging and less (55. DISMISS), and advocate further research, even though no discernible results have been forthcoming in support of any particular theory.