Planting February 2022 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
  Barren day. Fine for clearing, plowing, fertilizing, and killing plant pests.
• 2nd – 3rd
  Extra good for cucumbers, peas, cantaloupes, and other vine crops. Set strawberry plants. Plant peppers, sweet corn, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, California, and Texas.
• 4th – 5th
  Seeds planted now will grow poorly and yield little.
• 6th – 8th
  Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
• 9th – 10th
  Any seed planted now will tend to rot.
• 11th – 13th
  Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Fine for planting beans, tomatoes, corn, cotton, cucumbers, peppers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate allows.
• 14th – 17th
  Clear ground, turn sod, kill plant pests.
• 18th – 20th
  Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
• 21st – 22nd
  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.
• 23rd – 24th
  Poor planting days. Good harvest days.
• 25th – 26th
  Any root crops that can be planted now will do well.
• 27th – 28th
  Barren days. Fine for clearing, plowing, fertilizing, and killing plant pests. Good harvest days.

 

[Toosh]

I'm not sure how this is helpful to anyone when so much depends on your growing zone.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

Well, you have to take your growing zone and current weather conditions into account as you utilize this information.

For example, I am in zone 7, suburban Memphis, TN.

When the almanac says this (the third day of February) is a good day to plant tomatoes, I know that it is a good time to plant tomatoes -according to the moon signs.

But moon signs are only one thing that goes into that kind of decision.

i know from experience that I can plant lettuce, cabbage, and broccoli in February on days the moon signs are favorable here in the Memphis area, as long as I use row cover to help protect the little plants.

But I would never plant tomatoes this early - favorable moon signs or not. Not even under row cover. It is just too cold.

I will wait for favorable moon signs to hit again later in the season before I plant tomatoes in Zone 7.

 

[fish hook]

I have planned to start tomatoes on the 12th, that will bring them ready for transplant in early April. I will have to keep them under row cover for a couple of weeks, but it should be warm enough here in zone 8.