Planting August 2021 Planting and Chat Thread

[packyderms_wife]

Planting Calendar - Gardening by the moon

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• 1st – 1st
  Good day for transplanting. Root crops that can be planted now will yield well.
• 2nd – 3rd
  Any seed planted now will tend to rot.
• 4th – 6th
  Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Most favorable days for planting beets, onions, turnips, and other root crops.
• 7th – 10th
  Best for killing weeds, briars, poison ivy, and other plant pests. Clear wood lots and fencerows.
• 11th – 12th
  Excellent for sowing grains, winter wheat, oats, and rye. Plant flowers. Good days for planting aboveground crops.
• 13th – 14th
  Plant seedbeds. Plant peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, California, and Texas. Extra good for leafy vegetables.
• 15th – 17th
  Cut winter wood, do clearing and plowing, but no planting.
• 18th – 19th
  A good time to plant aboveground crops.
• 20th – 21st
  Barren days, fine for killing plant pests.
• 22nd – 23rd
  Excellent for any vine crops such as beans, peas, and cucumbers. Good days for transplanting. Favorable days for planting root crops.
• 24th – 26th
  Neither plant nor sow on these barren days.
• 27th – 28th
  Good days for transplanting. Root crops that can be planted now will yield well.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Wow, not sure how this happened but it's August! My tomato plants are loaded with tomatoes, all green of course. Picked a couple of handfuls of green beans already, I expect I'll be overwhelmed with green beans in about two weeks time.

I planted cow peas this year, they looked like black eyed peas on the package. We've never planted these, so now to do some research on how to harvest and eat them. We planted three short rows so are not expecting much of a harvest, the plants sure are tall though. My yellow wax beans are also going nuts, and should have some beans to harvest maybe next week sometime.

 

[cyberiot]

Almost time to start seeds for Fall 2021 here in Zone 9B. Phase I is October through January; Phase II is February through May. During June through September, we hide inside with our AeroGardens, guzzle iced tea, and post stuff like this: