Planting June 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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• 1st – 2nd
  Plant seedbeds. Extra good for planting fall lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, and other leafy vegetables. All aboveground crops planted now will do well.
• 3rd – 4th
  Poor planting days, cut hay or do general farm work.
• 5th – 6th
  Plant late beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, and other root crops.
• 7th – 8th
  Poor days for planting. Kill plant pests, spray, fertilize, do general farm work.
• 9th – 10th
  Set strawberry plants. Excellent for any vine crops such as beans, peas, and cucumbers. Good days for transplanting. Favorable time for planting late root crops.
• 11th – 12th
  Cut hay or do plowing on these barren days. Good harvest days.
• 13th – 14th
  Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting root crops.
• 15th – 17th
  Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground. Good harvest days.
• 18th – 19th
  Excellent for sowing seedbeds and flower gardens. Plant tomatoes, beans, peppers, corn, cotton, and other aboveground crops on these most fruitful days.
• 20th – 24th
  Poor period for planting. Kill plant pests, clear fencerows, or clear land.
• 25th – 27th
  Sow grains and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, and other fall crops bearing aboveground.
• 28th – 29th
  Plant seedbeds. Extra good for planting fall lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, and other leafy vegetables. All aboveground crops planted now will do well.
• 30th – 30th
  Poor planting day, cut hay or do general farm work.

July 2023

 

[dioptase]

So here's a question...

Our country has a whole gamut of climate zones, so presumably the above list might work for some areas, but not others. (To be honest, though, I can't see how one day would be good for planting, but not the next day.)

For example, if I tried planting lettuce from seed (directly outside in the garden) NOW, it would not work out too well.

So, does anyone actually follow this with success? If so, which states/zones?

 

[summerthyme]

It's based on moon phases, so it's just general for all planting zones. If you are in a warmer area, where it's now too hot for lettuce, ignore it.

I don't really have a lot of faith in moon sign planting.

Summerthyme

 

[MissionBend]

The use to be a old man and his wife who lived across from my husband when he was growing up and he planted by the moon and it always seemed to do real good for them. Like hubby says Don't know if it really made all that much of a difference or not.

Hubby took something over to their house one time when his mom was out planting something and the old man said she was planting it in the wrong sign when his wife hollered out to my hubby and told him to tell that "Da*&ed old fool that you plant in the ground not in the signs". It still cracks hubby up to this day.