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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
Good for planting cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, and other vine crops. Set strawberry plants. First day is a good day for transplanting. First day is also a favorable day for planting beets, carrots, radishes, salsify, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops. Second day is a good day for planting aboveground crops. - 3rd – 5th
Cultivate and spray, do general farm work, but no planting. - 6th – 7th
Favorable for planting crops bearing yield above the ground. - 8th – 10th
Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground. - 11th – 12th
Excellent for sowing seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting days for aboveground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate permits. - 13th – 17th
A most barren period, best for killing plant pests or doing chores around the farm.