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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
Barren days, do no planting.
4th - 5th
Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other above ground crops where climate is suitable.
6th - 8th
Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
9th - 10th
Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. First day is best planting day for aboveground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate is suitable. Second day is a good day for transplanting. Second day is also a most fruitful time for planting beets, carrots, onions, and other hardy root crops in the Deep South.
11th - 14th
A barren time. Best for killing weeds, briars, poison ivy, and other plant pests. Clear wood lots and fencerows.
15th - 16th
A favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
17th - 18th
Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, turnips, onions, beets, Irish potatoes, other root crops in the South. Also good for leafy vegetables.
19th - 20th
Do no planting.
21st - 23rd
Good planting days for root crops where climate permits.
24th - 25th
A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting.
26th - 28th
Extra good for peppers, tomatoes, peas and other vine crops. Fine for planting any aboveground crop where the climate permits.
29th - 30th
Barren days, do no planting.