Planting January 2022 Planting and Chat Thread

[packyderms_wife]

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 – 2nd
  First day is good planting day for root crops where climate permits. Second day is good for planting aboveground crops such as sweet corn, beans, and peppers in southern Florida, Texas, and California.
• 3rd – 4th
  A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting.
• 5th – 7th
  Extra good for peppers, tomatoes, peas and other vine crops. Fine for planting any aboveground crop where the climate permits.
• 8th – 9th
  Barren days, do no planting.

 

[packyderms_wife]

I'm not sure why they're only giving the first nine days of January, hope to remember to check back here in a week to post the remainder of January.

 

[fish hook]

I am looking for the first week in February. Anxious to get started. Got a stack of seed catalogs already.

 

[moldy]

I am looking for the first week in February. Anxious to get started. Got a stack of seed catalogs already.

Better get your seeds bought. Places are already running out of stock on some things.

 

[Toosh]

Have you noticed prices on fertilizer? If you can find any on the shelf now pick it up while you can. A 40lb bag of 10-10-10 usually sells for $10. Today I saw it for $32. I can't even find anything higher. I'm sure that later in the spring prices will continue to go up.

 

[tech]

That makes me glad I picked up extra fertilizer last fall
Already have broccoli, spinach and some volunteer tomatos going...potatoes getting planted next week.
Curious that only the first week is showing...

 

[onmyown30]

Got all my seeds bought, still have spinach and beets that look pretty ok outside. Hopefully it won’t get too cold tonight and kill them. I’ve never grown beets before and not sure about them….. the greens look amazing and I guess I should have been using them.

I’ll start seeds soon…. Hubby said he would help with moving the raised garden this month. He started moving blocks the other day. I wanted to change where it was located and he said he would help. I can’t wait to get it the way I want!!!

 

[BenIan]

I’ve got a boat load of onion sets but don’t know when to plant them. I’m going to put them in raised beds. I’m borderline zone 8-9. Should I put them in now (we are getting down to 29 tonight or hold them a month or so?

 

[packyderms_wife]

Curious that only the first week is showing...

This happened last month as well, so odd.

 

[packyderms_wife]

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.

www.farmersalmanac.com

• 5th – 7th
  Extra good for peppers, tomatoes, peas and other vine crops. Fine for planting any aboveground crop where the climate permits.
• 8th – 9th
  Barren days, do no planting.
• 10th – 11th
  Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
• 12th – 14th
  Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
• 15th – 16th
  Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting days for aboveground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate is suitable.
• 17th – 21st
  A barren time. Best for killing weeds, briars, poison ivy, and other plant pests. Clear wood lots and fencerows.
• 22nd – 23rd
  A favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
• 24th – 26th
  Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, turnips, onions, beets, Irish potatoes, other root crops in the South. Also good for leafy vegetables.
• 27th – 28th
  Do no planting. Good harvest days.
• 29th – 30th
  Good planting days for root crops where climate permits.
• 31st – 31st
  A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting. Good harvest day.

 

[fish hook]

Better get your seeds bought. Places are already running out of stock on some things.

Already got this years and next. I only plant open pollinated, so i save my seed. Like the seed catalogs just to se if there is anything i would like to add. You are right, if you need seed, sooner is better than later.

 

[fish hook]

I’ve got a boat load of onion sets but don’t know when to plant them. I’m going to put them in raised beds. I’m borderline zone 8-9. Should I put them in now (we are getting down to 29 tonight or hold them a month or so?

Now.

 

[philkar]

I am worried about seed potatoes. Coop promises they will have some. Praying!

 

[Babs]

I'm planning on doing some winter sowing this year. It's the first time. I've got all my gallon jugs ready and just waiting for another week or so to start sowing them.

Has anyone here tried this?

 

[Donna_in_OK]

If you are thinking about buying seeds from MI Gardener -- SHARE10 should get you 10% off your order.

I just got my 1st order from there.

 

[AlaskaSue]

…I’m just over here ordering seeds that I can start indoors in a few weeks…..


BUT I can plant my starts outside only four short months from today.


…. I’ll just see myself out now….

 

[summerthyme]

…I’m just over here ordering seeds that I can start indoors in a few weeks…..


BUT I can plant my starts outside only four short months from today.


…. I’ll just see myself out now….

You aren't the only one, Sue! It was 3 below zero this morning... gonna be awhile before I even think about starting seeds!

Summerthyme

 

[Donna_in_OK]

My Hyacinths are starting to poke out of the ground, as while we have had a couple of cold snaps, we haven't had much of a winter yet. I've noticed that my forsythia is also looking like the buds are starting to fill out. Heck a few are starting to show colors indicating growth. I know they will get smacked back with Mother Nature.

While I want to put seeds into freshly made potting mix, I will wait patiently. But, I am starting to buy what I can when I can. Who knows if in 6-8 weeks if anything will be left.

 

[AlaskaSue]

You aren't the only one, Sue! It was 3 below zero this morning... gonna be awhile before I even think about starting seeds!

Summerthyme

Yep…if I could, I’d sign my son and his family to work a community garden plot. There are some good ones in the area and I’d love for the grands to learn to grow things. Maybe someday.

My grandboy helping me plant some starts in one of the flowerbeds last June

Packy, thanks for calendar…it sounds pretty interesting!