Planting Planting and Chat Thread for January 2024!

[packyderms_wife]

Not sure where December 2023 went, its January already!

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 – 1st
A barren time. Best for killing weeds, briars, poison ivy, and other plant pests. Clear wood lots and fencerows.
2nd – 4th
A favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
5th – 6th
Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, turnips, onions, beets, Irish potatoes, other root crops in the South. Also good for leafy vegetables.
7th – 8th
Do no planting. Good harvest days.
9th – 10th
Good planting days for root crops where climate permits.
11th – 12th
A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting.
13th – 14th
Extra good for peppers, tomatoes, peas and other vine crops. Fine for planting any aboveground crop where the climate permits.
15th – 17th
Barren days, do no planting.
18th – 19th
Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
20th – 21st
Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
22nd – 24th
Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting days for aboveground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate is suitable.
25th – 29th
A barren time. Best for killing weeds, briars, poison ivy, and other plant pests. Clear wood lots and fencerows.
30th – 31st
A favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.

 

[sssarawolf]

For us and others in the cold zones it will be a while . I do like the farmers almanac.

 

[packyderms_wife]

For us and others in the cold zones it will be a while . I do like the farmers almanac.

for us northerner's it's time to order seeds, slips, and the like if you haven't done so already, and it's a great time of the year to raise micro greens, sprouts, herbs, and other indoor goodies like lettuce and radish greens. I need to clear my shelves in the east window of the kitchen and get some stuff going... I've been craving avocado toast with sprouts again...

 

[moldy]

Thank you for starting this. It's a beautiful sunny day here and it's hard not to think of getting my hands in the dirt (that is mostly frozen!)

 

[nomifyle]

I ordered some red onion multiplying onion sets, will be here in February or so. I plan on putting most of them in the front porch planter boxes.

 

[packyderms_wife]

I ordered some red onion multiplying onion sets, will be here in February or so. I plan on putting most of them in the front porch planter boxes.

okay I'll bite, what is a multiplying onion?

 

[nomifyle]

okay I'll bite, what is a multiplying onion?

it grows in small clusters of bulbs. I just cut the tops for green onions. I like red onions best.

 

[dioptase]

I think they are called bunching onions. I have some that are supposed to be red at the bottom, but I don't know.... I just cut the tops off for green onions, too.

I should maybe think about starting some lettuce and/or arugula seeds...