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Planting Calendar - Gardening by the moon
This planting calendar helps you pick the best days for gardening tasks based a 200-year-old formula. Our readers swear by it! Learn more.
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- 1st – 1st
Start seedbeds. Good day for transplanting. Excellent time for planting root crops that can be planted now. Also good for leafy vegetables. - 2nd – 3rd
Barren days, do no planting. Second day is a good harvest day. - 4th – 5th
Any root crops that can be planted now will do well. - 6th – 7th
A barren period, best suited for killing plant pests. Do plowing and cultivating. Good harvest days. - 8th – 9th
Good for planting cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, and other vine crops. Set strawberry plants. Good days for transplanting. Favorable days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, salsify, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops. - 10th – 11th
Cultivate and spray, do general farm work, but no planting. - 12th – 13th
Favorable for planting crops bearing yield above the ground. - 14th – 16th
Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground. - 17th – 18th
Excellent for sowing seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting days for aboveground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate permits. - 19th – 23rd
A most barren period, best for killing plant pests or doing chores around the farm. - 24th – 26th
Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. First day is an excellent time for planting corn, beans, peppers, and other aboveground crops where climate permits. Last two days are favorable days for planting root crops. - 27th – 28th
Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Excellent time for planting root crops that can be planted now. Also good for leafy vegetables. - 29th – 31st
Barren days, do no planting.