Thanks @Obelixx, I sowed more peas today, (in the drizzle and rain I might add) and more raddish and beetroot so hopefully they will all be OK even if I have overlapped on the best days.
Today the moon moves into Libra at 11:21 so we have a flower day on a descending moon until 17:10 tomorrow - Monday 16th. It's a good time to sow, plant, transplant flowering plants of any kind, not just artichokes, broccoli etc but do be careful about watering if it's hot and sunny.
From 17:10 on the 16th to 15:25 on the 18th the moon is moving thru Scorpio so a good time to deal with plants grown for foliage, be they edible or ornamental. It's also early on the waning moon so a good time for cuttings and layering to make more plants. However, on Tuesday, we have the moon at Perigee at 16:26 so no gardening for 5 hours either side but you can do maintenance of paths and structures or just have a day off.
From 15:25 on the 18th to 18:51 on the 18th the moon moves thru Saggittarius - fruit days - and is still descending so a good time for any pruning or trimming you need to do, or layering strawberry runners, planting out tomatoes and beans and fertilising any fruit plants that have set fruit. Make sure they have enough water to swell and ripen those fruits.
On the 20th we starts a very brief roots period from 18:51 to just 10:26 on the 21st so get any carrots, turnips and so on sown or planted then.
All timings are BST so add an hour if you're on CET time.
Enjoy your gardening and may your crops be bountiful.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Off danger list!@hurray. You are doing à Sterling job Obelixx thank you so much. Hospital for at least for another fortnight as have to learn to walk plus breathe properly again o/h delighted it as rained..told me he does not like Gardening after all!!prefers mowing and hacking down trees oh dear!@still at 79yrs old perhaps he has an excuse.
Sort of good news then @biofreak but 2 weeks confined to hospital would drive me up the wall. Hope you have lots to read and potter with between physio sessions.
My OH does all our mowing and strimming and heavy lifting plus grape pruning. Never gets to pant anything cos he has black thumbs but he likes to see things growing so all is not lost.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hope you are continuing to improve @biofreak and can soon go home.
Lunar gardening update: The moon is now in an ascending phase and that's good for harvesting aerial parts of plants - fruits, leaves, flowers, seeds - as well as grafting fruiting and flowering plants on an appropriate day and some sources say sowing is best done in an ascending phase.
As stated above, the 20th is a fruit day until 18:51 BST and then we get a brief roots day till 10:26 BST on the 21st. As the moon passes thru Aquarius we then move into flower days until the 23rd - sowing, thinning, planting out, dead-heading, training climbers such as roses and clematis, harvesting globe artichokes and broccoli....
The 24th to the 26th and until 14:44 on the 27th the moon is in Pisces so we have leaf days - brassicas, salads, herbs to plant out, succession sow and harvest - but then it moves into Aries for fruit days but only till the 19th when it moves to Taurus and roots again. Still time to plant some late potatoes and sow more beetroots, carrots, kohlrabi, celeriac or plant out plugs if you have them. There is a node at 3:33 so no gardening for 5 hours either side.
New moon on the 31st and still in Taurus.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Today the moon moves into Libra at 11:21 so we have a flower day on a descending moon until 17:10 tomorrow - Monday 16th. It's a good time to sow, plant, transplant flowering plants of any kind, not just artichokes, broccoli etc but do be careful about watering if it's hot and sunny.
From 17:10 on the 16th to 15:25 on the 18th the moon is moving thru Scorpio so a good time to deal with plants grown for foliage, be they edible or ornamental. It's also early on the waning moon so a good time for cuttings and layering to make more plants. However, on Tuesday, we have the moon at Perigee at 16:26 so no gardening for 5 hours either side but you can do maintenance of paths and structures or just have a day off.
From 15:25 on the 18th to 18:51 on the 18th the moon moves thru Saggittarius - fruit days - and is still descending so a good time for any pruning or trimming you need to do, or layering strawberry runners, planting out tomatoes and beans and fertilising any fruit plants that have set fruit. Make sure they have enough water to swell and ripen those fruits.
On the 20th we starts a very brief roots period from 18:51 to just 10:26 on the 21st so get any carrots, turnips and so on sown or planted then.
All timings are BST so add an hour if you're on CET time.
Enjoy your gardening and may your crops be bountiful.
My OH does all our mowing and strimming and heavy lifting plus grape pruning. Never gets to pant anything cos he has black thumbs but he likes to see things growing so all is not lost.
Lunar gardening update: The moon is now in an ascending phase and that's good for harvesting aerial parts of plants - fruits, leaves, flowers, seeds - as well as grafting fruiting and flowering plants on an appropriate day and some sources say sowing is best done in an ascending phase.
As stated above, the 20th is a fruit day until 18:51 BST and then we get a brief roots day till 10:26 BST on the 21st. As the moon passes thru Aquarius we then move into flower days until the 23rd - sowing, thinning, planting out, dead-heading, training climbers such as roses and clematis, harvesting globe artichokes and broccoli....
The 24th to the 26th and until 14:44 on the 27th the moon is in Pisces so we have leaf days - brassicas, salads, herbs to plant out, succession sow and harvest - but then it moves into Aries for fruit days but only till the 19th when it moves to Taurus and roots again. Still time to plant some late potatoes and sow more beetroots, carrots, kohlrabi, celeriac or plant out plugs if you have them. There is a node at 3:33 so no gardening for 5 hours either side.
New moon on the 31st and still in Taurus.
We finally have steady rain here so no gardening for me whatever the calendar says😄