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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:11 am
This is a project I finished sometime last year while planning my garden for the year. The format is based on the seed starting plan (and spreadsheet) by Gayla Trail at yougrowgirl.com A lot of the information is based on averages from different varieties (particularly with the herbs). It's not set in stone science, but more of a general guideline. The early/late dates are windows of time where you can plant, transplant, and expect to have something to harvest. There's also additional information that I felt was useful like plant spacings. Really, the plant spacings are the only extra info I added. All the other stuff relates to calculating the dates. I'm personally happy with the whole thing. All you need to do is enter the frost date and everything is calculated for you! You can find your frost dates at the old farmer's almanac: http://www.almanac.com/garden/frostus.phpThe files are hosted at http://myfreefilehosting.com/ which is like yousendit, only not so temporary. They are microsoft spreadsheet files (.xls)
Indoor Seed Starting Chart (82 kb) Outdoor Seed Starting Chart (88.5 kb) Fall Vegetables Seed Starting Chart (76.5 kb)
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:53 pm
May 6th gonk I wanna plant before that! Gives me lots of time to hoard seeds though. I don't understand the moon planting though. Do I plant by moon-light, or just that day? ( moon link) I also don't get the early and late bit. For instance: Barley - Planting Dates: May 15-Jun 21 Moon Favorable: May 24-Jun 7 Does that mean barely prefers to be planted on the 24th of May over 15th May? Beans - (Early) Planting Dates: May 7 - June 21 Moon Favorable: May 7-9 / May 24 - June 7 (Late) Planting Dates: June 15 - July 15 Moon Favorable: June 22 - July 7 I don't get this early and late bit. 0_o;? ( full chart and my location would be "Ottawa, On")
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:06 am
the early and late dates are windows of time.
early is the earliest possible starting date and late is the latest date to start things. any date in between those two is kosher too.
same goes for the planting dates. earliest possible date to put stuff in the ground and latest possible date to put stuff in the ground.
I don't quite know about moon planting. I think i remember reading the phases of the moon are supposed to affect different aspects of growing plants so you plant according to the phase of the moon? I'm not familiar with it.
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:23 pm
The moon stuff only means which day to plant; although planting by moonlight can be a fun and heartening experience whee
From what I remember, the moon supposedly (don't think there's any scientific proof to this, haven't done my research) affects plants (and people xp ) in certain ways because of the large amount of water they contain, along with other reasons. Different sections of the sky in relation to the earth represent the different astrology symbols, and the different sections affect the relationship between the moon and the earth. I'll look up more detailed stuff later hopefully...
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:29 pm
the hard part, is here in tampa, we have some months TOO HOT to grow anything too, i wish there was a resource for that
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 11:17 am
Ha! I have a week to find my seeds before they should be planted!
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:56 pm
Wow, only 143 days! I remember planting all the seedlings on the farm, now we harvest every day.
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:02 pm
At Barnes and Noble there are wiccan/witch calendars that offer advice. I've flipped through them but for fear of my family believing me a pagan or a bad witch I refrain from buying them. : (
What I've wanted to do for a long time is get a blank calendar and write all of my dates in them for planting and redoing the garden. That way I can keep it with me and use it as a reference for future years. Granted the days won't match up seeing as February 1st doesn't always start on a Tuesday, October on a Saturday, etc, it doesn't matter what year it is, as the plants don't care either. They just want a good day to be born.
If you're concerned about not having the space, like if several plants are planted on each day or you want to write details you can always purchase one of those day-by-day page planners. My grandmother found this a big help when she got into her gardening, but she's moving to the city so she will probably no longer need her calendar. I wish I'd of taken it before she threw it away. My work would've been done for me, but for each generation I think it is something they must learn for themselves.
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:22 am
well, when it comes to tampa your best option would most likely be to grow tropical plants, like citrus fruits, pineapples, sugar cane, and tropical species of your favorite types of crops, heck, you could experiment with different genera of plants if you wanted, just make sure they can stand up to the heat!
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:18 am
My stepmom told me of the moon trick!!
Here is how it works. You know how sometimes the moon 'points up' and others it 'points down'? You plant specific plants during those times, otherwise they get a little crazy in their growing.
POINTS UP- this means that the moon's tilt makes it look like it's tilted to point upwards. you would want to plant things that grow tall here, like tomatoes
POINTS DOWN- The moon is tilting down, so it looks like it's looking at earth. I believe you plant rooty plants here to make them grow great root systems, like potatoes.
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:21 am
Strega Mama the hard part, is here in tampa, we have some months TOO HOT to grow anything too, i wish there was a resource for that actually I'm jealous of that heat. passionfruit, dragonfruit, and the theobroma genus thrive in that climate; hot and humid. For a good, easy challenge where you live, try growing cacao or cupuassu seeds, they'll love those conditions. only restriction I've found is that they are sensitive to light like orchids, so keep them out of direct light
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