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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
Barren day, neither plant nor sow.
2nd – 3rd
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.
4th – 5th
Good days for killing weeds, briars, and other plant pests. Poor for planting.
6th – 7th
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.
8th – 9th
A barren period. Second day is a good harvest day.
10th – 12th
Good days for transplanting. Root crops that can be planted now will yield well.
13th – 14th
Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground. Good harvest days.
15th – 17th
Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. First two days are good days for transplanting. First two days are also most fruitful days for planting root crops. Last day is most favorable for corn, cotton, okra, beans, peppers, eggplant, and other aboveground crops.
18th – 22nd
A most barren period. Kill plant pests and do general farm work.
23rd – 24th
Sow grains and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, and other fall crops bearing aboveground.
25th – 26th
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.
27th – 28th
Barren days, neither plant nor sow.
29th – 30th
Any aboveground crops that can be planted now will do well.
31st – 31st
Good day for killing weeds, briars, and other plant pests. Poor for planting.