Gardening by the signs - APRIL 2019

APRIL yr 2019		https://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/
		https://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/zodiac/
1st - 2nd	Feet	Set strawberry plants. Excellent for any vine crops, such as beans, peas, and cucumbers. Good days for transplanting. Favorable days for planting root crops.
3rd - 5th	Head & Face	Poor planting days. Break ground or cultivate.
6th - 7th	Neck	Favorable for planting beans, corn, cotton, tomatoes, peppers, and other aboveground crops.
8th - 9th	Arms	Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
10th - 12th	Breast	Plant seedbeds and start flower gardens. Plant tomatoes, beans, peppers, corn, cotton, and other aboveground crops on these most fruitful days.
13th - 14th	Heart	Grub out weeds, briars, and other plant pests.
15th - 16th	Bowels	Grub out weeds, briars, and other plant pests.
17th - 18th	Reins	A favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and fodder crops. Plant flowers. Plant corn, melons, squash, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops.
19th - 20th	Secrets	Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops. Also good for leafy vegetables.
21st - 22nd	Thighs	Neither plant nor sow on these barren days.
23rd - 24th	Knees

folklore homesteading - weeding, pruning, below ground crops, etc

According to folklore, the period from the full Moon through the last quarter of the Moon is the best time for killing weeds, thinning, pruning, mowing, cutting timber, and planting below-ground crops.

https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-april

Moon Phases for April 2019

All dates and times are ET. See our Moon Phase Calendar to customize times to your location.

	New Moon: April 5, 4:50 A.M.
	First Quarter: April 12, 3:06 P.M.
	Full Moon: April 19, 7:12 A.M.
	Last Quarter: April 26, 6:18 P.M.