In May, the planting time comes to an end, but the work of gardeners and gardeners does not decrease. Young shoots are threatened with the last frosts and the first pests, "walking" beds and thawed flower beds are waiting for their residents and the time for grafting fruit trees is rapidly running out. There is a lot to be done in the last month of spring, so let's put together an action plan, roll up our sleeves and get started. The lunar sowing calendar for May 2019 for the gardener and gardener will tell you on what dates of work will be more successful.
Lunar sowing calendar of the gardener and gardener for may
- Date: May 1st.
Lunar day: 25-26.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Pisces
Tuberous and bulbous cultures are on the agenda. Plant in greenhouses and open ground - depending on weather conditions - carrots, beets, onions, onions and, of course, potatoes. You can weed the beds covered with the first shoots, but with caution: today you should not disturb the roots. If frost still occurs in your area at night, the seedlings should be covered with paper caps or cut in half and inverted plastic bottles. In the garden, pay attention to the aboveground part of the plants by treating trees and bushes from pests. The same goes for indoor flowers.
- Date: May 2.
Lunar day: 26-27.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Aries.
Take care of the soil: loosen, cultivate, weed, huddle, apply mineral fertilizers. You can plant potatoes and root vegetables. If you still haven't dug up the tree-trunk circles in the garden, do it now, at the same time picking weeds from the ground and sowing the soil with nasturtium - in order to scare off aphids - or covering it with inorganic mulch (gravel) for decorative purposes. Keep your distance from the trunk while working to avoid damaging the roots. Today, any operations that can injure plants should be generally avoided, so pinching and pruning will be superfluous. If any of the indoor flowers need soil replacement, transplant them into other pots, but if you're not in a rush, wait until the end of the month.
- Date: May 3.
Lunar day: 27-28.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Aries.
Time is not conducive to planting and caring for plants. Water the beds in the vegetable garden and greenhouse, apply organic fertilizers to the soil, lay compost. At the site, inspect the branches of the currants in search of a bud mite and check the young trees planted in the fall - it is important that the root collar is not too deep in the ground.
- Date: May 4th.
Lunar day: 28-29.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Taurus.
Tuberous and bulbous (potatoes, radishes, daikon, onions), to which roots are added: root parsley, horseradish, remain the priority for planting. Loosening is recommended, without affecting the root zone, moderate watering.
- Date: May 5.
Lunar day: 29–1–2.
Phase: New Moon.
Zodiac sign: Taurus.
At the time of the new moon, it is better to curtail active work in the garden and vegetable garden. Relax, double-check the condition of your gardening equipment, and clean up the area. The collected plant debris can be formed into smoke heaps to protect the seedlings from frost.
- Date: May 6.
Lunar day: 2-3.
Phase: waxing moon.
Gemini.
Spring is gaining strength, plants are actively growing, and any type of work is welcomed on the site, of which the most popular today will be loosening, weeding and fertilizing the soil. You can plant carrots, parsley on the root, salad. On the garden plot, the favorable time for grafting apples and pears is about to come to an end, do not miss it. It is better not to touch houseplants without special need, moderate watering is the only thing that they need.
- Date: May 7.
Lunar day: 3-4.
Phase: waxing moon.
Gemini
Plants require strength to grow actively, so watering and fertilizing are the first on the to-do list today. In addition, you can weed, huddle, loosen, dig up beds, thin out shoots, and fight pests and diseases. Good time for sowing and planting creeping, hanging and climbing flowers. But the transplant and the pick will most likely end unsuccessfully, refrain from them.
- Date: May 8.
Lunar day: 4-5.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Cancer.
Those same golden days of spring are coming, which "feed the year." Plant and replant: cucumbers, bell peppers, zucchini, squash, melons and legumes. Perennial flowers can be sown, transplanted and propagated by dividing bushes and tubers. In addition to them, until the buds begin to actively bloom, plant fruit trees and berry bushes on the garden plot, and then generously water and mulch the soil in the trunk circles. Feed old trees with urea.
- Date: May 9.
Lunar day: 5-6.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Cancer.
Young sprouts require nutrients and moisture and gratefully accept any care. Feed and water them, loosen the soil to provide oxygen access to the roots, thin out seedlings, and transplant. Plant lettuce, tomatoes, eggplants, and if the weather is warm, then different types of cabbage - white cabbage, red cabbage, cauliflower. Gradually, the time comes to plant heat-loving plants in the flower garden: begonia, zinnia, fragrant tobacco, dahlias, petunias. However, the seedlings should be hardened before this, leaving them in the open air for several hours for 1-2 weeks.
- Date: May 10.
Lunar day: 6-7.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Cancer.
Any work with plants is favorable: thinning, picking, planting in the ground, watering, feeding. Plant cucumbers and lettuce, eggplants and bell peppers, spinach and asparagus, parsley for herbs and root, cauliflower and white cabbage, watermelons and melons, celery, dill, sunflowers. The flowerbed is dominated by perennials, which can be planted or divided. In the northern regions, where spring comes late, you can still have time to graft fruit trees.
- Date: May 11.
Lunar day: 7-8.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Leo.
Unfavorable day for planting, as well as for work directly related to plants. Loosen the soil in the beds, trying to keep the tools at a distance from the roots, carefully huddle the plantings and apply mineral fertilizers to the soil. Moderate watering is allowed. If the air temperature in the morning does not rise above + 10 °, try to shake pest beetles from fruit trees and bushes onto a spread light canvas in the garden to avoid treatment with pesticides.
- Date: May 12.
Lunar day: 8-9.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Leo.
It is not recommended to violate the integrity of plants: cut off branches, remove shoots, pinch. But you can safely engage in seedling thinning, weeding, fertilizing, planting and replanting. First of all, this applies to radishes, onions and herbs. In your garden, inspect strawberry and strawberry beds for dry leaves and bare roots and tidy them up. It is also worth thoroughly combing the lawn with a rake, piercing the soil and feeding the grass with mineral fertilizer for better growth.
- Date: May 13.
Lunar day: 9-10.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Virgo.
Today, all plants grow especially actively and stretch upward, including weeds in the beds, so act more decisively: uproot the weeds, plant useful crops. Low-growing trees and ornamental shrubs for a garden plot (barberry, hydrangea, Japanese keria) deserve your first attention, but only if there is no frost. In addition to them, strawberries, wild strawberries and annual flowers are waiting for plantings.
- Date: May 14.
Lunar day: 10-11.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Virgo.
Dedicate a day to improving the quality of the soil: applying mineral and organic fertilizers, laying compost, soaking the grass for further preparation of nutritional mixtures for green pets. Weeding, thinning of seedlings, removal of young growth are allowed. Climbing and creeping plants are recommended for planting: decorative flowers, legumes and melons, strawberries with strawberries. Reproduction by layering will be successful, as well as the division of bushes and tubers of perennial flowers.
- Date: May 15.
Lunar day: 11-12.
Phase: waxing moon.
Libra.
A good day for planting seedlings of tomatoes, sweet peppers, eggplants, zucchini, red cabbage and kohlrabi, legumes and melons in the ground, sowing annuals and dividing perennial flowers. Replenish the garden plot with new specimens of fruit trees and shrubs, berry and ornamental. It's too early to transplant houseplants, but you can start preparatory work by purchasing flower pots, soil and fertilizers.
- Date: May 16.
Lunar day: 12-13
Phase: waxing moon.
Libra.
The best time for all gardening work from watering to replanting. Send seedlings of cucumbers, lettuce, herbs to the beds; plant bulbous and tuberous flowers, root cuttings of roses. Plants are shown feeding and loosening. But pest control is unlikely to be effective.
- Date: May 17.
Lunar day: 13-14
Phase: growing moon
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
The day is identical to the previous one - all work with land and plants is allowed. The planting of tomatoes, sweet peppers, eggplants, zucchini, squash, pumpkins, melons, watermelons, white cabbage and cauliflower, lettuce, spicy and medicinal herbs will be successful. Among the flowers, roses come out on top: start rooting cuttings and transplanting. You should not deal only with bulbous and tuberous crops, pruning, processing with pesticides.
- Date: May 18.
Lunar day: 14-15
Phase: growing moon
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
Work the soil diligently. Loosening, hilling and feeding will allow the planted plants to grow faster and accumulate resources for a generous harvest. Continue planting thorny (roses) and conditionally thorny crops with a long stem with hard hairs (pumpkins, melons, cucumbers, squash) - all this can be dived and planted. Among indoor plants, ficuses, money trees, and rosemary will survive the transplant.
- Date: May 19.
Lunar day: 15-16.
Phase: full moon.
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius.
Day of rest. At the time of the full moon, it is advisable to stop all garden work.
- Date: May 20.
Lunar day: 16-17.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius.
During the waning moon, plants with a fruiting lower part acquire double strength for growth. Take advantage of this to complete the planting of potatoes and Jerusalem artichoke, sugar beet, celery, garlic, horseradish, onions for turnips, parsley for the root, as well as sowing herbs. Take care of the lawn as well - aerate, sow herbs, fertilize.
- Date: May 21.
Lunar day: 17-18.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Capricorn.
Root crops remain a priority. Plant radishes and daikon, carrots and beets, different types of onions. The time is ripe for getting rid of pests. Early in the morning, while the insects are sluggish, shake them off the branches of trees and shrubs onto a canvas laid out at the roots, and sprinkle the beds with wood ash, tobacco, tansy.Inspect indoor plants for the appearance of a spider mite and other uninvited guests; Wash pots and windowsills with hot water, baking soda and laundry soap.
- Date: May 22.
Lunar day: 18.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Capricorn.
A busy day. Do not disturb planting without urgent need, give up loosening and weeding, be careful with watering. However, you can tackle the top of the ornamental plants - for example, do formative pruning of a rhododendron.
- Date: May 23.
Lunar day: 18-19.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Capricorn.
The situation is beginning to level off, almost all work on the site is allowed again. Loosen, weed, fight pests and diseases - in particular, treat the trunks of fruit trees with urea. You can plant all crops whose strength is concentrated in the root: potatoes, beets, carrots, radishes, onions, horseradish, root celery, parsley on the root. Indoor plants are allowed to be transplanted.
- Date: May 24.
Lunar day: 19–20.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Aquarius.
Take care of generous watering of plants, feeding, composting. Planting is gradually fading away, but if you still have plans for potatoes, plant it today - after the 25th – 26th, the time for this crop will be lost. You can cultivate the land, form cucumber whips, treat plants from pests and diseases. Indoor flowers intended for relocation in the summer to open ground, it's time to take it outside.
- Date: May 25.
Lunar day: 20-21.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Aquarius.
A good period for working with soil, feeding and watering plants, thinning seedlings, cleaning on the site. In addition, this is one of the last days suitable for planting potatoes, but it is better not to deal with other crops today.
- Date: May 26.
Lunar day: 21-22.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Pisces.
Recommended for planting radish, radish, daikon, onion and onion on a turnip. Measures aimed at treating plants from pests and diseases, as well as watering and loosening will be effective. Root a strawberry whisker in your garden. In the flower garden, loosen the soil around the roses, tie the clematis. If the lawn grass has managed to stretch more than 10 cm, it will not hurt to mow it.
- Date: May 27.
Lunar day: 22-23.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Pisces.
Pruning of plants is undesirable, but all other gardening work can be performed without a doubt. Water and fertilize the soil, loosen, plant radishes, beets, carrots, onions and green onions, parsley on the root and herbs. Greenhouse owners have been harvesting the first spring greens - parsley, dill, cilantro - from their insulated beds for a long time, and at the end of the month this can also be done outdoors. The transplanting of indoor plants to the street and landscaping of the balconies continues. Now here you can breed thermophilic marigolds, petunias, nasturtiums.
- Date: May 28.
Lunar day: 23-24.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Pisces.
Plant radishes, carrots, beets, strawberry bushes and strawberries in the beds. Feed strong plants and young shoots, add humus, but be careful with watering: there is a risk of provoking root rotting from excess moisture. Collect greens from the beds, mow the grass on the lawn.
- Date: May 29.
Lunar day: 24-25.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Aries.
A day of low fertility. It is recommended to clean the territory and work on landscaping the garden, pest control, fertilization of the soil. You can loosen, huddle, weed, thin the seedlings, cut off the mustache from strawberries, replace the soil in flower pots. Pruning indoor plants will stop their growth.
- Date: May 30.
Lunar day: 25-26.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Aries.
Tidy up the beds. Loosen, level, huddle, remove weeds and fight pests. You can sow herbs such as cilantro, dill or caraway seeds for the future.In the flower garden, finish the last planting of bulbous and tuberous ornamental crops and propagate roses by cuttings.
- Date: May 31.
Lunar day: 26-27.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Taurus.
Plant activity is reduced, but earthworks, in particular weeding, loosening and moderate watering, will benefit them, the main thing is not to touch the root area. Occupy empty beds with root parsley, onions, horseradish. Take care of the formation of lashes of cucumbers and grapes.
