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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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3rd - 4th
Any seed planted now will tend to rot.
5th - 6th
Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Fine for planting beans, tomatoes, corn, cotton, cucumbers, peppers, melons, and other above ground crops where climate allows.
7th - 10th
Clear ground, turn sod, kill plant pests.
11th - 12th
Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
13th - 14th
Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, turnips, onions, beets, Irish potatoes, and other root crops in the South. Lettuce and other leafy vegetables will do well.
15th - 17th
Poor planting days
18th - 19th
Any root crops that can be planted now will do well.
20th - 22nd
Barren days. Fine for clearing, plowing, fertilizing, and killing plant pests.
23rd - 24th
Extra good for cucumbers, peas, cantaloupes, and other vine crops. Set strawberry plants. Plant peppers, sweet corn, tomatoes, and other above-ground crops in southern Florida, California, and Texas.
25th - 27th
Seeds planted now will grow poorly and yield little.
28th - 29th
Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.