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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 - 2nd
Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground.
3rd - 5th
Excellent for sowing seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting days for above ground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate permits.
6th - 9th
A most barren period, best for killing plant pests or doing chores around the farm.
10th - 11th
Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
12th - 13th
Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Excellent time for planting root crops that can be planted now. Also good for leafy vegetables.
14th - 15th
Barren days, do no planting.
16th - 17th
Any root crops that can be planted now will do well.
18th - 20th
Barren days, do no planting.
21st - 22nd
Good for planting cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, and other vine crops. Set strawberry plants. Good days for transplanting. Favorable days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, salsify, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops.
23rd - 25th
Cultivate and spray, do general farm work, but no planting.
26th - 27th
Favorable for planting crops bearing yield above the ground.
28th - 30th
Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground
31st
Excellent for sowing seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting day for above ground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate permits.