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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
Do clearing and plowing, but no planting. - 2nd – 3rd
Plant tomatoes, peas, beans, and other aboveground crops, indoors in the North and outdoors in lower South. - 4th – 5th
Poor planting days. Kill poison ivy, weeds, clear land, but no planting. - 6th – 7th
Extra good for vine crops. Favorable days for planting aboveground crops where climate is suitable. - 8th – 9th
Barren days, do no planting. - 10th – 12th
Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, onions, turnips, and other hardy root crops where climate is suitable. - 13th – 14th
Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground. - 15th – 17th
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. - 18th – 21st
A most barren period, best for killing plant pests or doing chores around the farm. Good harvest days. - 22nd – 24th
Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops. - 25th – 26th
Start seedbeds. Favorable days for planting aboveground crops, and leafy vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, kale, and celery where climate is suitable. - 27th – 28th
Do clearing and plowing, but no planting. - 29th – 30th
Plant tomatoes, peas, beans, and other aboveground crops, indoors in the North and outdoors in lower South. - 31st – 31st
Poor planting day. Kill poison ivy, weeds, clear land, but no planting.