Planting May 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 – 1st
  Plant late beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, and other root crops.
• 2nd – 3rd
  Kill plant pests on these barren days.
• 4th – 6th
  Fine for vine crops. Set strawberry plants. Good days for transplanting. Favorable time for planting late root crops.
• 7th – 8th
  Poor planting. Fine for cultivating or spraying.
• 9th – 11th
  First two days are good days for transplanting. First two days are also when planted root crops will yield well. Last day is favorable for planting beans, corn, cotton, tomatoes, peppers, and other aboveground crops.
• 12th – 13th
  Any seed planted now will tend to rot.
• 14th – 16th
  Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Most favorable for corn, cotton, okra, beans, peppers, eggplant, and other aboveground crops.
• 17th – 20th
  A barren period. Favorable for killing plant pests, cultivating, or taking a short vacation.
• 21st – 22nd
  Favorable time for sowing hay, fodder crops, and grains. Plant flowers. Excellent time for planting corn, beans, peppers, and other aboveground crops.
• 23rd – 24th
  Plant seedbeds. Excellent for planting aboveground crops, and planting leafy vegetables.
• 25th – 26th
  Seeds planted now will do poorly and yield little.
• 27th – 29th
  Plant late beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, and other root crops.

 

[seraphima]

Thanks for the info, although personally i haven't found moon cycles have a lot of bearing on my plant growth. Up north here, the weather and the coldness of the ground require that many, if not most seeds be started inside. Most seeds germinate when the SOIL temperature is 65-70, so that means starting most inside.

 

[seraphima]

Today was the day gardening switched from mostly planting and transplanting to mostly upkeep and harvesting. My first crop came in - garlic chives- which I cut with scissors into tiny bits and freeze in baggies with olive oil. Regular chives will be next. both of these great as green onion additions to tuna salad, soups, anything that needs some green. Put the grow-light back in the basement and pulled out the mower.

 

[Murt]

picked my first tomato of the year yesterday
I try to get a ripe tomato before the 1st of June every --usually it is a day or so before June --this year was a week before

 

[seraphima]

Murt, congrats on your tomato! I enjoy meeting playful goals like that too.

 

[seraphima]

I'm happy because I got the potatoes hilled and then covered the whole big bed with a couple of inches of compost. That also prepares the bed for next year's garlic, to be planted this fall after the 'taters are dug and the compost turned under in the process. Now two compost bins are cleaned out, and the third bin was turned into one of those, preparing for making a lot of new compost this year. I use permaculture methods to work smart and get multiple jobs done at one time.