Planting December 2020 Gardening and Chat Thread

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.

  • 4th – 7th
    A barren period. Favorable for killing plant pests, cultivating, or taking a short vacation.
  • 8th – 9th
    Plant flowers. Fine for sowing hay, fodder crops, and grains. Favorable days for planting root crops.
  • 10th – 11th
    Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, beets, onions, turnips, Irish potatoes, and other root crops in the South.
  • 12th – 13th
    Do no planting.
  • 14th – 16th
    Plant sweet corn, beans, peppers, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
  • 17th – 18th
    Barren days. Fine for clearing, plowing, fertilizing, and killing plant pests.
  • 19th – 20th
    Extra good for cucumbers, peas, cantaloupes, and other vine crops. Plant peppers, sweet corn, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, California, and Texas.
  • 21st – 23rd
    A barren period.
  • 24th – 25th
    Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
  • 26th – 28th
    Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground.
  • 29th – 30th
    Start seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Most favorable days for planting beets, onions, turnips, and other root crops where climate allows.
  • 31st – 31st
    A barren period. Favorable for killing plant pests, cultivating, or taking a short vacation.
 

Murt

Veteran Member
I am planting fruit and nut trees--150 -200 ( not counting the oaks) on my little place
I planted several nut trees hoping to live long enough to get a little something off of them
I have planted an almond --7 pecan trees--5 chestnut trees and an 2 Ozark Chinquapin trees with a few unknown varieties of chinquapin
I also planted about 100 sawtooth and gobbler sawtooth oaks for pigs to forage on
Point being we just returned from a friends house that has a few -maybe 7 or 8 pecan trees
We picked up three 5 gallon buckets full and he has already picked up close to 600 lbs and there are still gobs and gobs of nuts on the ground--we will probably get 2 more buckets full
I love perennials
 
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