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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 – 3rd
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. - 4th – 5th
Poor planting days. Good harvest days. - 6th – 7th
Any root crops that can be planted now will do well. - 8th – 9th
Barren days. Fine for clearing, plowing, fertilizing, and killing plant pests. First day is a good harvest day. - 10th – 11th
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. - 12th – 13th
Seeds planted now will grow poorly and yield little. - 14th – 15th
Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable. - 16th – 17th
Any seed planted now will tend to rot. - 18th – 20th
Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Fine for planting beans, tomatoes, corn, cotton, cucumbers, peppers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate allows. - 21st – 25th
Clear ground, turn sod, kill plant pests. - 26th – 27th
Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops. - 28th – 29th
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.