Planting January 2023 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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• 2nd – 4th
  Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
• 5th – 6th
  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.
• 7th – 11th
  A barren time. Best for killing weeds, briars, poison ivy, and other plant pests. Clear wood lots and fencerows.
• 12th – 14th
  A favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
• 15th – 16th
  Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, turnips, onions, beets, Irish potatoes, other root crops in the South. Also good for leafy vegetables.
• 17th – 18th
  Do no planting. Good harvest days.
• 19th – 20th
  Good planting days for root crops where climate permits.
• 21st – 22nd
  A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting.
• 23rd – 24th
  Extra good for peppers, tomatoes, peas and other vine crops. Fine for planting any aboveground crop where the climate permits.
• 25th – 26th
  Barren days, do no planting.
• 27th – 29th
  Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
• 30th – 31st
  Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.

 

[packyderms_wife]

 

[SousJo]

"Education is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing better than to put it in a fruit salad. Philosophy is asking if ketchup is a smoothie."

I like the planting days info being right here, Packy, it's very handy.

We're shifting compost and turning over the gardens. It's all prep and seed tray sowing right now. One of these days I'll be bold as brass tacks and get my peas planted in January. Probably not this year though.

Looking at my hatchery catalogue wistfully. Bet you half a dollar all the good chicks are already bought out through June.

 

[pauldingbabe]

Yep...pressing seed blocks now.

This is the first time I'm starting so early but....what the hell. Why not?

 

[packyderms_wife]

Yep...pressing seed blocks now.

This is the first time I'm starting so early but....what the hell. Why not?

Thanks for the reminder we have one of those seed block thingies!

 

[philkar]

We are getting greenhouse in order for seedlings. Potatoes are laid out to chit and sweet potatoes in trays awaiting slips! We too are starting early. We always have big plans!

 

[kyrsyan]

My daffodils are popping and blooming. Almost 2 months early. I'm debating ordering the new cabbage, broccoli, and brussel sprouts seed and dropping them in as soon as they arrive. And maybe starting some of the spring crops inside so I can drop them in early.

 

[dioptase]

I'm starting to stratify some iris and daylily seeds, for later planting in cell packs or pots.

I'm also starting to think about cleaning up my plant stand, in preparation for the above ornamentals, also some statice, and then the veggie/herb starts. Maybe I'll get to that next weekend.

This last weekend was spent in a forced (because there was an inside frozen waterfall and the whole thing had to be thawed) cleanout and triage of my little "lab fridge" (a temperature controlled wine cooler), so now I have all the seeds organized and ready to go. Amazing how much space was freed up once I had gotten rid of old daylily/iris seeds, and winnowed out some of the older edible seeds.

(During this cleanout process I came across my packet of 'Dirty Girl' tomato seeds, bought last summer, separate from the *rest* of the tomato seeds, which I must have set aside and put "in a safe place". Naturally once I got all the seeds organized, I couldn't find it again, and I was forced to reorder it. )

 

[ioujc]

With this bizarre weather, I have cherry trees budding out in January!!

 

[Seeker22]

I have tiny (1" diameter) Bluebonnets sprouting in the High Meadow. They don't usually come in til April?! Agaritas are already budding out. Way too early for that. Killed a Stinkbug in the house yesterday. I have Spring Fever, but this is January?!

 

[AlaskaSue]

I get to start my early starts the end of the month in my big grow tent down in what I call the Science Room. Mostly onions but I'll have something new to start almost every week until I can start hardening things off in May. Labor Day is the target plant day, so a ways to go yet.

My bean seed viability test went so well that I can now harvest green beans indoors - but will let them go to seed to keep the experiment on track

 

[ioujc]

I can NOT believe we are going on the last 10 days of January!!!??