Planting May 2023 Planting and Chat Thread

[packyderms_wife]

Can someone please explain where April went???

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• 1st – 1st
  A barren period. Favorable for killing plant pests, cultivating, or taking a short vacation.
• 2nd – 3rd
  Favorable time for sowing hay, fodder crops, and grains. Plant flowers. Excellent time for planting corn, beans, peppers, and other aboveground crops.
• 4th – 5th
  Plant seedbeds. First day is excellent for planting aboveground crops, and planting leafy vegetables. Second day is a good day for transplanting. Second day is also when to plant carrots, beets, onions, turnips, and other root crops. Also good for leafy vegetables.
• 6th – 7th
  Seeds planted now will do poorly and yield little.
• 8th – 9th
  Plant late beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, and other root crops.
• 10th – 12th
  Kill plant pests on these barren days. Last day is a good harvest day.
• 13th – 14th
  Fine for vine crops. Set strawberry plants. Good days for transplanting. Favorable time for planting late root crops.
• 15th – 16th
  Poor planting. Fine for cultivating or spraying. Good harvest days.
• 17th – 18th
  Good days for transplanting. Root crops that can be planted now will yield well.
• 19th – 20th
  Any seed planted now will tend to rot.
• 21st – 23rd
  Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Most favorable for corn, cotton, okra, beans, peppers, eggplant, and other aboveground crops.
• 24th – 28th
  A barren period. Favorable for killing plant pests, cultivating, or taking a short vacation.
• 29th – 30th
  Favorable time for sowing hay, fodder crops, and grains. Plant flowers. Excellent time for planting corn, beans, peppers, and other aboveground crops.
• 31st – 31st
  Plant seedbeds. Excellent for planting aboveground crops, and planting leafy vegetables.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Well they got today correct, barren period, it's so windy out that anything you plant would simply blow away! Wind is blowing at 25mph with gusts upwards of 55mph today. Iowa

 

[Donna_in_OK]

Thank you. I should have checked this yesterday. Oh well... we will see.

What all are you planting? So far in the ground are my tomatoes, potatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, corn, cukes, and annual things like asparagus. Oh yeah, birdhouse gourd and luffa (probably only time trying it) Found a natural cotton ball along the road after harvest and pulled 10 seeds out the other day. Think I might try to plant them just to see what happens. Most of my herbs survived, so I will replant the ones that didn't, and start new ones. I'm planting all types of new things this year to see what happens. If we don't like it, the chickens or something else should.

 

[Wildwood]

I wish I'd seen this sooner too...I bet my beans and peas were planted on the wrong day but they are doing ok so far.

We added a new row to the main area of our garden, the very last we have room for on that side. We realized part of it held water when we got a gully washer a couple nights ago and I'd already sewn seeds in it, a whole row of bright lights cosmos...my far right row is always flowers. I'm moving my okra to the former flower row this year. Anyway, we noticed that in the flood last year, a lot of dirt got washed under the ground cover cloth next to the row holding water so I removed it, scraped all the extra dirt off and put it back where it went...got a great workout because that row is 44 ft. long. DH saw me working and couldn't resist checking out my progress. He did shovel a lot of the dirt I scraped up into the new row. I'll resew the flowers next week.

I start a good bit of my plants indoors and I'll be planting those this coming week. I should have gotten them in sooner but it may have been for the best because that rain we had would have beaten my poor starts into the ground. I do mostly vertical gardening and we decided last minute to do some upgrades and it has delayed my planting...again. I believe this will be the last of the upgrades. It is now old folk friendly lol.

Tomorrow we are taking the grands to the city and I'm going to try and find another of the neon pink purslanes I had last year. I usually don't indulge myself with store bought plants but that thing was gorgeous at the front of my garden in an old graniteware bucket. The morning sun would make it look like something out of a fairy tale. Thankfully I got some pics in case I never find another one because they aren't available in my small town this year. I sure wish I'd tried to winter it over. Fingers crossed they have one in the city...I'd settle for another color.