Lunar Planting - what have you grown today?

[Helgalush]

Potted on some tomatoes and sweet peppers, sowed some more tomatoes, sweet peppers and cayenne peppers. Also sowed some more early peas. I'm running out of space....hope this cold/windy spell goes away soon, though it looks set to get worse

[marchogaeth]

Hey Feral - are you a Lunar-tic too? You must have an opposite moon phase calendar to us (I think)
Please don't try to explain it - I haven't got to grips with the Northern Hemisphere yet!

I don't think so. The moon is in the same phase but it arrives according to the date line. If I'm correct then synodic won't change but I'm not sure about bio (or the other one whatever it's called.

This site has phases of the moon for the southern hemisphere.

This site has a conversion chart for going from UT(GMT) to where you live in the world.

[marchogaeth]

More potatoes, I feel Irish ....!

Fingers crossed you don't have the total Irish experience then or you might end up having to eat your family or emigrating!! (No disrespect to Irish history intended.)

[marchogaeth]

Synodic.

I have been sticking rigidly with the weeks up to last week. I like the organisation, the way it makes me do maintenance jobs and look at all my seeds on a regular basis to decide what to plant. I have found only really having weekends and the odd Monday available pretty hard to work around but hopefully, no we have extra evening light it'll get easier.

I did panic in March because I had so much planted up and no where to put it all as the weather was still so cold at night. So I sort of stopped planting and am now a bit (but only a bit) worried about the long term gap this might create. Foolishly, I then bought some onion seedlings last week, having said I wouldn't this year. Had to put all of them in modules, they just looked too small to plant out and way too big to leave squashed in the tray they came in - there were hundreds!

April
I sowed pea seeds in one of my new beds and started off beans in root trainers and loo rolls (French, Runner and Broad). I think the Runners and Frenchies are finding it a bit cold in the tunnel.

I did get my potatoes in on a root day and sowed some carrots and parsnips, planted out garlic (companion planting expt but had to sow some Dill in there as well - probably won't germinate-way too cold but looking towards Gertrude.)

This last week things went haywire.
My cucumbers didn't germinate (I think I've made the beginner's mistake of over watering) so I started another couple off becasue I didn't want to wait till next leaf week. Ditto for some of my courgettes.
I thought some of my Kohl Rabi had stopped germinating so I did a test ( think I started on a root day) but then had to plant them up when they did germinate which was deffinitely on a do nothing with plants day.

Finally, (if you've read this far well done) I'm interested in companion planting and can quite see that trying to stick to a synodic pattern is going to make it very complicated (to me) as I like to sow whole beds at a go.

Right that's me up to date!
VVG hope cold not too rough.

[VirginVegGrower]

Synodic.


Right that's me up to date!
VVG hope cold not too rough.

Hi March, am getting over it slowly although think it scared Zazen enough today - cant say I blame her - I don't want it either. I too like synodic but am slipping. I hadn't enough space at the allotment to plant all of my potato tubers, so Mr VVG and I cleared a border of our neighbours' garden and popped the rest in there today. It's right on the cusp of changeover too, but hey c'est la vie. It's a maintenance week now for synodic, but that will not stop me dibbing some pea plants in and lettuce seedlings that the hail storm prevented me from getting in. I also have manure to get up to the allotment for my courgette hot bed.

Take heart March and others.

[VirginVegGrower]

Maintenance week and I'm busy raking, composting and pruning again.

[marchogaeth]

Maintenance week and I'm busy raking, composting and pruning again.

Starting with a ride (again) then it's the half mile long hedge down the lane - well for half an hour anyway!

[Sylvan]

Today was definitely not a fruit day no matter which system I try to fiddle, but I suddenly found some energy lying around the house so I used it to pot on some tomatoes

Perhaps if I had waited for the correct day I wouldn't have 24 empty 3" pots but a list that says I only potted on 21 plants

[Helgalush]

Potted on some cauli's and sowed some nasturtiums yesterday & potted on a couple of lavenders today.

[marchogaeth]

Put in my last two cucumber seeds! Two little seedlings I had look like the last two nights in the window might have been too cold. (I've put them in the propagator for an overnight warm but am not helpful. I also b******d up the previous ones by over watering. Really don't want to buy anymore seed so fingers crossed)

Sweet corn on tissue in the propagator to check for germination before planting on.

[VirginVegGrower]

Synodic leaf and flower week starts today!

[marchogaeth]

What have I planted today (and yesterday)?

Feels like the whole of Wales! Leaf weekends are a nightmare.

Also discovered:- I hate planting through ground cover material. Plants look sweet afterwards though!

[veggiechicken]

Fruity day for me. Sowed into my NEW Rootrainers 4 seeds each of 16 different types of bean, mainy Climbing French. Didn't realise I had so many!

[Helgalush]

Cleaned some pots today, then potted on courgettes and a few tomatoes. The beans, peppers, tomatoes, courgettes and peas that I sowed last week are all up and doing well! Hope this is the last week of all this rain, I know its good for the plants in the ground but I think quite a few of my seeds have rotted in their modules.

[marchogaeth]

Nothing - in answer to the original question because the weather is truly awful. The tunnel is chock full of modules that can't even go out for hardening off and plants that should be in beds in the tunnel itself. I'm going to have to do the thing I didn't want to, which is potting everything on but then I'll just need more room! Who said gardening was relaxing?