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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
Favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and fodder crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops. - 3rd – 4th
Start seedbeds. First day is a good day for transplanting. First day is also when to plant carrots, beets, onions, turnips, Irish potatoes, and other root crops in the South. Second day is good for planting cabbage, celery, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, collards, and other leafy vegetables in southern Florida, Texas, and California. - 5th – 6th
Poor planting days. - 7th – 8th
Good days for planting peas, squash, corn, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California. - 9th – 11th
A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting. - 12th – 13th
Extra good for vine crops. Favorable days for planting aboveground crops where climate allows. - 14th – 15th
Seeds planted now will grow poorly and yield little. - 16th – 18th
Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable. - 19th – 20th
Any seed planted now will tend to rot. - 21st – 23rd
Start seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Best planting days for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops where climate is suitable.