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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 – 4th
A most barren period. Kill plant pests and do general farm work. - 5th – 7th
Sow grains and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, and other fall crops bearing aboveground. - 8th – 9th
Start seedbeds. Extra good for fall cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, mustard greens, and other leafy vegetables. Good for any aboveground crop that can be planted now. - 10th – 11th
Barren days, neither plant nor sow. - 12th – 13th
First day is when any aboveground crops that can be planted now will do well. Second day is a good day for planting beets, carrots, salsify, Irish potatoes, and other root crops. - 14th – 15th
Good days for killing weeds, briars, and other plant pests. Poor for planting. - 16th – 17th
Set strawberry plants. Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, salsify, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops. Also good for vine crops. - 18th – 19th
A barren period. - 20th – 22nd
Good days for transplanting. Root crops that can be planted now will yield well. - 23rd – 24th
Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground. Good harvest days. - 25th – 27th
Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Most fruitful days for planting root crops.