Changeable March is difficult to fit into a calendar. He is too unpredictable: he will beckon with the sun, douse with frost, fill up the thawed patches with new snowdrifts twice as high as the previous ones. But it will not hurt to outline a schematic plan of action for enthusiastic gardeners-gardeners, because when else to start active preparation for future plantings, if not in the first month of spring? The sowing lunar calendar for March 2019 will tell you favorable dates and work for every day.
Lunar calendar of the gardener and gardener for March 2019
It's time to wake up spring primroses
- Date: March 1st
Lunar day: 24-25
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Cleaning and planning day. Check the seedling boxes, calcine or freeze the soil, apply mineral and organic fertilizers to the soil. In the garden area, clear the paths, fill the containers prepared for melt water with snow, check the condition of the greenhouses - in a word, put the territory in order. Indoor flowers can be removed from dry and spoiled leaves; it is not recommended only to disturb the plant roots.
- Date: March 2
Lunar day: 25-26
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
You should not carry out work related to the destruction of something, for example, pruning or weeding. However, you can water, fertilize, take preventive measures against diseases and pests. The right time to soak seeds with a dense shell: cucumbers, tomatoes, beets.
- Date: March 3
Lunar day: 26-27
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac sign: Aquarius
Bad day. Everything that will be planted today will begin to sprout late, sluggish and uncomfortable. But with the shoots that have already appeared, treat them more boldly, weeding, hilling, pinching and thinning them as you wish. Treat plants from pests and diseases, but give up feeding - now useful substances will not be used. Abundant watering is also contraindicated, the roots will begin to rot.
- Date: March 4th
Lunar day: 27-28
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac sign: Aquarius
It is still worthwhile to postpone feeding, although moderate watering is allowed. Any violation of the integrity of plants is also prohibited, so there should be no pruning or pinching in your plans. But the preparation of the soil for planting will be successful.
- Date: March 5
Lunar day: 28-29
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac sign: Pisces
The germination capacity of crops sown on this day is unlikely to be impressive, but the most impatient can start sowing root crops (radishes, radishes, beets, carrots, daikon) and parsley on the root. A neat rejuvenating and formative pruning won't hurt indoor flowers. When the thaw is at least + 5 ° C, inspect the trees in the garden for damage from frost, rodents and lichens, clean the wounds on the trunks, disinfect with a solution of copper sulfate and treat with garden pitch. At the same time, remove the frozen branches to healthy wood and also process the cuts.
It is recommended to clean the trunks from lichens
- Date: March 6
Lunar day: 29-30-1
Phase: New Moon
Zodiac sign: Pisces
Rest day for plants and gardeners. Take care of planning your garden, check if you need to fix your garden tools, fill bird feeders on the site.
- Date: March 7
Lunar day: 1–2
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Pisces
The favorable time for planting is approaching.You can slowly start active work with the soil: loosen, huddle, weed, apply fertilizers (mineral dressing is especially recommended). Cucumbers, bell peppers, red and white cabbage, peas, beans and other legumes are sown in greenhouses with warmed-up soil and containers on the windowsills. A good time to plant potatoes for sprouting and bulb flowers for forcing. At the summer cottage, you can cut cuttings for grafting and put them in water. Do not water the plants.
- Date: March 8
Lunar day: 2–3
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Aries
Good period. Any kind of work is allowed, with the exception of pinching and pruning - the plants grow, and your indelicate intervention can damage them. Also, be careful with watering; excess water will damage the roots. But treatment from pests and diseases will be appropriate. Indoor plants are allowed to replant and replace potted soil.
- Date: March 9
Lunar day: 3-4
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Aries
There are practically no bans. You can do everything from weeding and hilling to picking and replanting. The only thing is, do not overdo it with feeding, so as not to burn the plants. At a summer cottage in regions with early spring, cover the beds with crops before winter with a film on a wire frame so that the earth warms up faster, or sprinkle peat and humus - all this will accelerate the melting of snow.
- Date: March 10
Lunar day: 4-5
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Taurus
Loosening, watering and feeding, as well as transplanting are on the agenda. However, other types of work will also be successful; you should only refrain from pruning. Sow tomatoes and eggplants, annual flowers on seedlings; dive the February seedlings into separate containers. In the garden, shake off the snow from the branches, and in the event of a thaw, whitewash the trunks to protect them from sunburn - the sun rays reflected from the snowdrifts pose a much more serious danger than it seems.
Whitewashing will protect not only from pests, but also no less dangerous rays of the sun
- Date: March 11
Lunar day: 5-6
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac sign: Taurus
Plants actively draw moisture and nutrients from the soil - use this to water and feed them. For sowing seedlings, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, red cabbage, legumes, horseradish, carrots, radishes, sunflowers are recommended. Plant onions on a turnip, parsnips on a root, parsley on a root, and herbs. Sow perennial flowers.
- Date: March 12
Lunar day: 6-7
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Taurus
The moon is growing and young shoots try to keep up with it. Support them with watering, top dressing and gentle weeding that does not touch the roots. It is better not to touch the plants themselves: any traumatic procedure can delay their development, so postpone pruning until better times. Take care of soaking the seeds, sowing eggplant, zucchini, squash, sweet peppers, cabbage (white cabbage, red cabbage, Peking cabbage) and various types of greens and herbs - lettuce, spinach, celery, parsley for herbs, basil, cilantro for seedlings.
- Date: March 13
Lunar day: 7-8
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Gemini
The recommendations of this day are not much different from the previous one. Plants are still diligently gaining strength and strength, which sometimes even goes to harm, so do not forget to inspect your crops in order to thin out and weed them in time. You can plant all the crops listed in the previous paragraph, with the possible exception of spicy herbs: it is believed that they will not have a pronounced aroma and taste. Among the flowers, the time comes for creeping, hanging and creeping plants. Think about which ones you would like to see in your flowerbed in the summer, and get down to business. At the summer cottage, harvest cuttings and belts for catching insects for future use, fill the feeders.
- Date: March 14
Lunar day: 8-9
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Gemini
Although the moon continues to gain weight rapidly, green pets begin to lag behind it. Put the seeds aside and give up the idea of diving and replanting, this is not the best option at the moment. The only exceptions are creeping and "mustachioed" crops - peas, beans, and in the southern regions watermelons, melons and pumpkins. Concentrate on loosening the soil, hilling and applying organic fertilizers, your mentees still need nutrients.
- Date: March 15
Lunar day: 9-10
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Cancer
The ball continues to be ruled by climbing and weaving crops: cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, squash, legumes. You can bookmark for forcing and planting bulbous and tuberous flowers. Watering and feeding are still relevant, the main thing is not to bring them to fanaticism, so that one half of the sprouts does not burn out and the other does not rot. Weather permitting, inspect the berry bushes in the area and cut out dry and bud mite-affected branches.
This is what this pest looks like on the branches of fruit trees and bushes (on the right, a diseased branch)
- Date: March 16
Lunar day: 10-11
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Cancer
Give home plantings time off by focusing on the suburban area. Clear paths and aisles, free branches of trees and bushes from adhered snow, rake it into prepared containers. You can sprinkle the area with humus or ash to speed up the melting of the snow, but do not overdo it: in the northern regions, frosts are even more than possible at this time, so there is no need to drive snow melting here. During a thaw, those who have not done this before should clean up the wounds and lichen-affected areas on tree trunks, disinfect, cover the sections with pitch.
- Date: March 17
Lunar day: 11-12
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Leo
The coming period is not particularly fertile. You can work on the ground, fertilize and replant well-rooted plants, but do all this with the utmost care. If you have idle soil prepared for planting, start planting flowers. Curly, bulbous, tuberous should take a good start. In addition, sunflowers and herbs are included in the list of permitted crops.
- Date: March 18
Lunar day: 12-13
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Leo
Slow down with fertilization and watering, you run the risk of "overfeeding" the sprouts that are not able to absorb everything with sufficient speed that you will regale them. Loosen the soil, huddle, weed. Are there any empty seedling boxes? Sow tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, eggplants, zucchini, radishes, carrots, beets, melons, legumes, horseradish, garlic, onions on a turnip, sunflowers or herbs in them.
- Date: March 19
Lunar day: 13-14
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Virgo
A great day for picking grown seedlings into separate containers, and in the southern regions - into the ground of prepared greenhouses with warmed up soil. It does not hurt to inspect the trees on the site again in order to remove dry and excess branches before the start of sap flow, and at the same time pour boiling water over the currant bushes. Transplant indoor plants into new pots.
- Date: March 20
Lunar day: 14-15
Phase: waxing moon
Zodiac: Virgo
All types of work with soil, watering, mineral dressing are welcome. Give preference to ornamental crops today: sow annuals and replant perennials. At your summer cottage, break the crust over the strawberry-strawberry beds to prevent the plants from overheating, and ventilate the flowers that are sheltered for the winter.
If the weather permits, you can open roses and rose hips
- Date: March 21
Lunar day: 15-16
Phase: full moon
Zodiac: Libra
Rest day. Take a break from worries or do something that does not require direct contact with the plants: put together a couple of birdhouses to attract birds to your site, sharpen the tool, prepare pegs for tying.
- Date: March 22
Lunar day: 16-17
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Libra
On the waning moon, the focus of attention shifts to tuberous flowers, roots and herbs: sow, plant, take care of. Be extremely delicate with the aerial part of the pets, pruning will damage them more than on other days. Indoor flowers can be sprayed against diseases and pests, garden trees and shrubs can be treated with a solution of urea or fumigated.
- Date: March 23
Lunar day: 17-18
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Scorpio
The moon's favorites are still roots, tubers and bulbs - carrots, beets, radishes, horseradish, garlic, onions, parsley, and potatoes. However, you can also do “tops”, for example, make sanitary and formative pruning, but with restrictions: if sap flow has already begun in the trees, it will have to be canceled.
- Date: March 24
Lunar day: 18-19
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Scorpio
You can weed, thin out seedlings, transplant seedlings and indoor flowers, but do this with the utmost care: the plants are vulnerable and can be difficult to perceive your manipulations with them. The fight against pests and diseases will be more successful. At the dacha, it's time to start making grooves and drains to drain excess melt water.
Work with plantings as carefully as possible, and if you cannot, it is better to refuse work on this day
- Date: March 25
Lunar day: 19
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Actions aimed at improving soil productivity are recommended. Feed seedlings and indoor flowers, and scatter nitrogen fertilizer on the site directly over the snow over the beds - as soon as it melts, the earth will receive the necessary substances. However, the idea loses its meaning if the snowdrifts that were high in the winter have not yet begun to sink under the sun. Having melted together, they will carry the fertilizer along with the streams of water. The day is suitable for planting zucchini and eggplant, asparagus and cabbage, sunflowers, root vegetables, tuberous and bulbous flowers.
- Date: March 26
Lunar day: 19–20
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Take care of the aboveground part of the plants. It is recommended to trim and cut off excess with caution, since green pets are still too vulnerable, but treatment from diseases and pests will come in handy. Watering will become superfluous, but feeding, if necessary, can be done. In terms of planting, in the first place are plants with a fruiting aerial part. First of all, these are nightshades (eggplants, peppers, tomatoes), all kinds of greens and flowers.
- Date: March 27
Lunar day: 20-21
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Clean up the area: collect branches that begin to emerge from under the snow, clear paths, check furrows to drain melt water from low-lying areas. Gentle formative pruning of trees and vines is possible if the plants are dormant, otherwise its time has passed. Seedlings and indoor plants can be watered, fed, loosened, treated from pests, and flowers can also be propagated by cuttings. During this period, they begin to vernalize potatoes, plant solanaceous, spicy and medicinal herbs, onions, garlic, flowers with curly stems.
- Date: March 28
Lunar day: 21-22
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Capricorn
An extremely fertile day, he almost does not put bans on gardeners. You should limit your ardor only in watering, so as not to provoke rotting of the roots; everything else: soil handling, crown formation, pest control, transplanting and transshipment is up to you. Audit the seedlings and do whatever you see fit.
- Date: March 29
Lunar day: 22-23
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Capricorn
And again, you can do almost all activities in the garden, but planting is a priority. Corn, beets, radishes, carrots, parsley for the root, onions for turnips, nightshades, legumes, melons, and herbs will grow well. Pest control is effective.
Don't be lazy and start planting seeds of your favorite vegetables and greens
- Date: March 30
Lunar day: 23-24
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Aquarius
The time of rest is approaching, therefore, active work with most crops should be reduced - the period is successful, except for sowing root crops, greenery and propagating flowers by cuttings. Engage in leisurely loosening of the earth, applying mineral fertilizers, thinning seedlings.
- Date: March 31
Lunar day: 24-25
Phase: waning moon
Zodiac: Aquarius
A calm day, conducive to leisurely, meditative work with the earth. Loosen, fertilize, huddle, weed, thin out shoots and water. Spray the trees in your garden with pest control. Recommended for planting: beets, radishes, daikon, carrots, parsley and parsnips for the root, peas, beans, celery, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, watermelons, melons, horseradish, onions, garlic, lettuce, Swiss chard, herbs, tuberous and bulbous flowers. If you have not yet completed your landing plan, fill in the blanks.
