I read in several other places before starting my garden that the third quarter (between the waning half-moon and new moon) is the worst time to plant anything, and that this is the best time to weed and fertilize. By this same advice the first quarter/new moon is the time to plant above-ground crops, and the full moon is when root vegetables should be planted. The exact days of these events are best but in-between days will suffice, although they're less-good the farther from new/full moon the day is. Beans and runners should be planted during the first-quarter moon. The rules presented here run along the same lines but are less precise. I used the above rules for my summer garden and they seemed to work well, but for my fall/winter garden none of my seeds germinated. Do the same guidelines apply for cold-weather gardens? It may be that I planted them too late in the season (November - it typically stays warm in the South well into Fall), as I wanted to finish harvesting my summer crops first, or the unusually cold weather discouraged them.
I read in several other places before starting my garden that the third quarter (between the waning half-moon and new moon) is the worst time to plant anything, and that this is the best time to weed and fertilize. By this same advice the first quarter/new moon is the time to plant above-ground crops, and the full moon is when root vegetables should be planted. The exact days of these events are best but in-between days will suffice, although they're less-good the farther from new/full moon the day is. Beans and runners should be planted during the first-quarter moon. The rules presented here run along the same lines but are less precise. I used the above rules for my summer garden and they seemed to work well, but for my fall/winter garden none of my seeds germinated. Do the same guidelines apply for cold-weather gardens? It may be that I planted them too late in the season (November - it typically stays warm in the South well into Fall), as I wanted to finish harvesting my summer crops first, or the unusually cold weather discouraged them.