Lunar calendar · in the garden
Gardening by the moon, month by month.
Sow, prune, harvest: the lunar gardening calendar month by month, with the exact lunations and the honest share of things (tradition on one side, the agronomic trials on the other).
- Gardening by the moon in January In January the garden sleeps and the gardener prepares.
- Gardening by the moon in February February wavers between winter and promise.
- Gardening by the moon in March March reopens the garden.
- Gardening by the moon in April April makes you want to sow everything, and it’s exactly the month to pace yourself.
- Gardening by the moon in May May is the month of the big plantings.
- Gardening by the moon in June In June the kitchen garden produces and asks for follow-through.
- Gardening by the moon in July In July the kitchen garden is in full swing and lunar tradition mostly acts as a metronome: sow the autumn vegetables on the ascending moon, prune and prick out on the descending moon, harvest almost every day.
- Gardening by the moon in August August plays on two seasons at once: you harvest summer by the handful and already sow autumn.
- Gardening by the moon in September September is the pivot month: the fruit arrives by the basketful while the summer beds free up.
- Gardening by the moon in October In October the kitchen garden changes season for good: you bring in the squash and the last roots before the frosts, plant garlic and spring bulbs, and cover the bare soil.
- Gardening by the moon in November November is the great month of planting: the sap flows back down, the trees fall asleep, and the old saying has it that every tree takes root.
- Gardening by the moon in December In December the garden sleeps, and that’s just as it should be.