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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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- 2nd – 4th
Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground. - 5th – 6th
Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. First day is best planting day for aboveground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate is suitable. Second day is a good day for transplanting. Second day is also a most fruitful time for planting beets, carrots, onions, and other hardy root crops in the Deep South. - 7th – 11th
A barren time. Best for killing weeds, briars, poison ivy, and other plant pests. Clear wood lots and fencerows. - 12th – 14th
A favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops. - 15th – 16th
Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, turnips, onions, beets, Irish potatoes, other root crops in the South. Also good for leafy vegetables. - 17th – 18th
Do no planting. Good harvest days. - 19th – 20th
Good planting days for root crops where climate permits. - 21st – 22nd
A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting. - 23rd – 24th
Extra good for peppers, tomatoes, peas and other vine crops. Fine for planting any aboveground crop where the climate permits. - 25th – 26th
Barren days, do no planting. - 27th – 29th
Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable. - 30th – 31st
Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.