Planting October 2023 Planting and Chat Thread

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.


  • 1st – 2nd
    Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, onions, turnips, and other hardy root crops where climate is suitable.
  • 3rd – 4th
    Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
  • 5th – 6th
    Start seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Best planting days for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops where climate is suitable.
  • 7th – 11th
    A most barren period, best for killing plant pests or doing chores around the farm. Good harvest days.
  • 12th – 14th
    Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. First two days are favorable days for planting root crops. Last day is a favorable day for planting beans, peas, squash, sweet corn, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California.
  • 15th – 16th
    Start seedbeds. Favorable days for planting aboveground crops, and leafy vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, kale, and celery where climate is suitable.
  • 17th – 18th
    Do clearing and plowing, but no planting.
  • 19th – 21st
    Plant tomatoes, peas, beans, and other aboveground crops, indoors in the North and outdoors in lower South.
  • 22nd – 23rd
    Poor planting days. Kill poison ivy, weeds, clear land, but no planting.
  • 24th – 25th
    Extra good for vine crops. Favorable days for planting aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
  • 26th – 27th
    Barren days, do no planting.
  • 28th – 29th
    Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, onions, turnips, and other hardy root crops where climate is suitable.
  • 30th – 31st
    Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
 

seraphima

Veteran Member
I grow many flowers and herbs in big pots. This past week i got enthused with the idea of making a sitting area outside my doorway, and , with the help of a mover's dolly, and sometimes my 6'3" son for the largest and heaviest, moved more than two dozen pots and halibut tubs into an S-curve partitioning an area off from the parking spots. The pots are filled with blooming calendula, herbs, medicinal plants, and pretties like blooming snapdragons. Voila! A new garden. We hung up a quiet windchime in a corner, transplanted a huge fern and some ribbongrass to hide an unsighty lumber pile, and I have ordered a couple of resin standing Celtic knotwork crosses. Out in the veggie garden we weeded out grass weeds and brought them over as plugs for a bare part of the lawn. Then it rained! All is doing well; I feel happy. A prayer garden...
 
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