It would seem that in January, even the most enthusiastic owners of suburban areas do not have time to plant: there are snowdrifts everywhere, house plants are in a dormant period, and almost half a month is set aside for the New Year holidays. But winter is not a hindrance to real gardeners! It is necessary to keep order on the site, to take care of the "garden on the windowsill" and prepare the soil for the first seedlings, because spring is just around the corner. The lunar sowing calendar for January 2019 will tell you the most favorable dates for work.
Lunar seed calendar for January 2019
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- Date: January 1st.
Lunar day: 24-25.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
In the southern regions, where there has not yet been severe frosts, cuttings can be harvested for spring grafting and pruning of damaged branches. In the cold northern ones, you will have to limit yourself to brushing snow from the trees and trampling it in the holes to make it difficult for rodents to access the roots. At home, plant onions on a feather, water indoor flowers and treat plants from diseases and pests.
- Date: January 2.
Lunar day: 25-26.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
Plant onions on a feather, sow herbs, and loosen the soil in flower pots. In addition, it is worth checking the condition of the vegetables and fruits laid out for storage, and ventilating the cellars.
- Date: January 3rd.
Lunar day: 26-27.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Planting onions on a feather, sowing on seedlings of hot peppers and leeks is recommended. In a suburban area, inspect the bark of trees in search of pest nests, if not done in the fall. Also, fill the feeders, clear paths, and cover young trees and berry bushes with snow.
- Date: January 4th.
Lunar day: 27-28.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius.
On this day, the lunar sowing calendar allows gardeners and gardeners to carefully loosen the soil in pots and containers with seedlings, although most of your efforts should be directed to sowing and planting (onions, herbs, peppers), watering, feeding flowering plants and spraying from pests.
- Date: January 5.
Lunar day: 28-29.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Young trees especially need protection from external influences.
Soak the seed for germination and thin out previously planted crops. In a suburban area, fill prepared containers with snow, check the strength of the strapping of young trees, and, if necessary, cover the bushes with burlap to protect them from sunburn.
- Date: January 6.
Lunar day: 29–1–2.
Phase: New Moon.
Zodiac sign: Capricorn.
Do not disturb the plants on the new moon. Plan for future plantings, check the seed fund, buy fertilizers and pest control products.
- Date: January 7.
Lunar day: 2-3.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Aquarius.
It is allowed to perform any kind of work with soil and plants: loosen, water, fertilize, thin and pinch. If you were going to transplant adult conifers from the nursery to your summer cottage this winter, you can do it today.
- Date: January 8th.
Lunar day: 3-4.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Aquarius.
A good day to bring the soil stored in the fall into the heat and start preparing it for future plantings. Household plants require watering and feeding (only flowering or about to bloom), beds in the garden - warming with snow removed from the paths, if the winter itself is little snow.
- Date: January 9th.
Lunar day: 4-5.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Aquarius.
They will be successful: preparing the soil for seedlings, loosening, weeding, watering, fertilizing with mineral fertilizers, planting onions on a feather, forcing parsley, celery and sorrel on herbs, sowing herbs, sweet and hot peppers, spinach, early ripening cucumbers. Picking and transplanting are not recommended.
- Date: January 10.
Lunar day: 5-6.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Pisces
If you have prepared planting material, it's time to check its quality and select the best specimens to prepare for planting
Watering, loosening and planting of all of the above crops are still relevant. You can do seedling thinning, picking, transplanting. It will not hurt to sort out the fruits, cuttings, tubers and bulbs of perennial flowers stored in the cellar, check their safety, cut out and disinfect rotten places.
- Date: January 11.
Lunar day: 6-7.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Pisces.
If there is a reservoir in your suburban area, the water from which you do not drain for the winter, it makes sense to make several holes in the ice, and at the same time toss snow on the beds with winter crops and flower beds with perennials, heap trees and bushes, and fill bird feeders.
- Date: January 12.
Lunar day: 7-8.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Aries.
The day is not fertile, so it is undesirable to sow anything, plant and soak the seeds. Loosen the soil in flower pots and containers with seedlings, treat plants from pests and diseases, and thin out seedlings. Be careful with watering - there is a risk of causing root rot.
- Date: January 13.
Lunar day: 8-9.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Aries.
If the weather is dry, frost-free, cut off the damaged tree branches and, if necessary, correct the whitewash on the trunks. To trap snow in the area, spread branches and brushwood among the beds. Snow can be used to fill unheated greenhouses (up to 50 cm layer) to moisten the soil with melt water in spring.
- Date: January 14.
Lunar day: 9-10.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Aries.
The day is unstable. You can do moderate watering and feeding, plant onions, garlic, parsley on greens, but you should not loosen and weed, so as not to damage the roots of plants. But it is allowed to prepare the soil for new plantings (calcine, freeze), select containers for seedlings and check seeds for germination.
- Date: January 15th.
Lunar day: 10-11.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Taurus.
An extremely fertile day! Sow leeks, hot peppers, tomatoes, white cabbage, cauliflower, Savoy cabbage, Peking cabbage, broccoli, lettuce and head lettuce, and watercress on the seedlings. Among the recommended works are transplanting, picking, pinching, watering and mineral fertilizing.
Plant whatever your heart desires! Moon phase is favorable for growth
- Date: January 16.
Lunar day: 11-12.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Taurus.
Plants are actively growing and gaining strength, so watering, feeding and loosening is more appropriate than ever. It is allowed to plant and transplant, weed, treat green pets from pests and diseases. On the site, check if it's time to shake off snow from tree branches and greenhouse roofs, which it can push with its weight.
- Date: January 17.
Lunar day: 12-13.
Phase: waxing moon.
Gemini.
Plant seeds sown in the ground today will have a high germination rate, so feel free to continue planting. To the above crops, you can add strawberries and curly perennials (for example, clematis), as well as forcing onions and shallots, garlic, parsley, dill for greens.
- Date: January 18.
Lunar day: 13-14.
Phase: waxing moon.
Gemini.
Do any work other than pruning: plant, sow, loosen, weed, water, and feed. Air the cellars and check the safety of fruits, cuttings and flower bulbs lying in them. In a winter with little snow, insulate roses, perennials, beds with winter crops with sawdust and spruce branches.
- Date: January 19th.
Lunar day: 14-15.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Cancer.
Plant on seedlings: eggplants, different types of cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, radishes, asparagus, spinach, beans, herbs. Feeding of flowering plants with mineral fertilizers, watering, pest and disease control are effective. In the garden, you can start the winter grafting of fruit trees and grapes.
- Date: January 20th.
Lunar day: 15-16.
Phase: waxing moon.
Zodiac sign: Cancer.
By luring birds to your site, you minimize harm from insects, because the place will already be fed by the feathered guards
Replenish your windowsill garden with a couple of extra containers of annual and perennial flower seeds. In addition to them, you can continue to sow vegetables, herbs, berries for seedlings; work the soil; fight pests and diseases. Cover trees and bushes with snow and fill the feeders on site.
- Date: January 21.
Lunar day: 16-17.
Phase: full moon.
Zodiac sign: Leo.
Cancel all work with plants, and if you have free time, repair garden tools, trellises, hedges, birdhouses and harvesting pegs for tying.
- Date: January 22.
Lunar day: 17-18.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Leo.
Bad day. It is not worth planting, sowing and grafting, but you can soak, pickle and lay seeds for stratification. Standard winter work is recommended at the summer cottage: shake off snow from trees and fill greenhouses with it, clear paths, feed birds, check the reliability of tying trees and bushes.
- Date: January 23.
Lunar day: 18-19.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Virgo.
The period is good for sowing seeds of radish, celery, parsley, dill and perennial flowers. You can return to vaccination again, thin out the seedlings, weed, dive, transplant.
- Date: January 24.
Lunar day: 19–20.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Virgo.
Dedicate a day to caring for home flowers: loosen the soil in pots, do moderate watering with warm water and wet cleaning of the leaves, wash the windowsills with laundry soap, spray the pets with tobacco dust from pests, turn the containers the other side to the window glass to provide the flowers with uniform illumination.
- Date: January 25.
Lunar day: 20-21.
Phase: waning moon.
Libra.
Curious: the Decembrist may not bloom for a long time due to improper care in the lunar phases
Indoor plants that are going to bloom soon (uzambara violet, Christmas cactus, poinsettia) require feeding, all others - moderate watering. Forcing of parsley and Swiss chard, sowing herbs, tillage, pest control, grafting are allowed.
- Date: January 26th.
Lunar day: 21.
Phase: waning moon.
Libra.
Loosen the soil in pots, feed flowering plants and forcible crops with organic fertilizers, and do moderate watering. Sowing root crops, as well as root celery and parsley, will be successful. Thinning can be done, but not pinching.
- Date: January 27.
Lunar day: 21-22.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
The day is distinguished by increased fertility, do not miss the opportunity to sow everything that you have not yet managed (watercress, leeks, tomatoes, hot peppers, early cabbage varieties, spinach, etc.) or soak seeds with a hard shell. Feeding, weeding, loosening are allowed, but do not be zealous with watering - the plants do not need excess moisture.
- Date: January 28.
Lunar day: 22-23.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
Not the best day for planting, but you can have time to sow root vegetables, root parsley and celery, put onions and garlic for forcing. It is allowed to soak and send seeds for stratification, feed the plants with mineral and organic fertilizers, irrigate them from a spray bottle to maintain the desired moisture level without the risk of soil acidification.
- Date: January 29.
Lunar day: 23-24.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
Early flowering plants such as petunias and poppies need soaking.
The period is suitable for soaking and stratification of seeds and care for emerging seedlings, but not for sowing. Thinning seedlings, loosening and weeding, fertilizing, watering are useful. Dry and rotten leaves can be removed from indoor flowers, although it is not recommended to resort to sanitary or formative pruning without an urgent need.
- Date: January 30.
Lunar day: 24-25.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius.
Avoid watering, loosening and other operations that can damage the roots of plants. Planting and sowing is possible, but the day is not fertile, so do not expect friendly shoots. The exceptions are perennial, tuberous and bulbous flowers (tulips, hyacinths, daffodils), which can be put on forcing.
- Date: January 31.
Lunar day: 25-26.
Phase: waning moon.
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius.
In the garden, shake off snow from branches, clean paths, refill feeders. At home, fight pests, fertilize flowering plants and forcing crops, spray flowers with warm water. Pruning is allowed for both indoor flowers and, in case of frost-free weather, trees in the garden.
