This Week's Post: An Updated 'Moon Phase' Page for your Garden Book (2023 - 2028)

This weekly blog post and its host website cover a wide variety of Fred Montague's environmental commentaries, gardening topics, and wildlife/art activities.  Please browse the website and the blog archives for topics you are interested in. 

This Week's Post: An Updated 'Moon Phase' Page for your Garden Book (repost)

If you own a copy of Fred’s Gardening: An Ecological Approach, the page with the moon phase table (p. 72) is nearly out of date.  The original page covered 2009-2014.  A revision in 2011 provided tables for 2011 – 2016 and another revision in 2016 covered 2016 - 2021.  The updated page (below) covers 2023 - 2028. 

Feel free to download the page (right-click to save) and paste it over the old one to make the only time-sensitive aspect of the book useful for another six years.

This Week's Post: An Updated 'Moon Phase' Page for your Garden Book (repost)

This weekly blog post and its host website cover a wide variety of Fred Montague's environmental commentaries, gardening topics, and wildlife/art activities.  Please browse the website and the blog archives for topics you are interested in. 

This Week's Post: An Updated 'Moon Phase' Page for your Garden Book (repost)

It's still planting season! 

If you own a copy of Fred’s Gardening: An Ecological Approach, the page with the moon phase table (p. 72) is nearly out of date.  The original page covered 2009-2014.  A revision in 2011 provided tables for 2011 – 2016.  The updated page (below) covers 2016 – 2021. 

Feel free to download the page (right-click to save) and paste it over the old one to make the only time-sensitive aspect of the book useful for another six years.

moon_phase_2016_2021

Gardening Basics: Planning the Garden on Paper

It's fun to plan a garden on paper. And the activity is not weather-dependent.​

With a piece of graph paper (or plain paper) and a pencil, anyone can visualize the most wonderful garden. Use the guide below (from Gardening: An Ecological Approach) to lay out your garden beds and determine the number of plants and their spacings.​

The dashed-line squares are 2' x 2'.​

The dotted-line squares are 1' x 1'.​

The space required for some common garden plants is indicated. For example, the first plant (lettuce) suggests 1 to 2 plants per square foot or 4 to 8 plants per 4 square feet. You may grow lettuce more densely than that, but the example explains my method. A broccoli plant requires 4 square feet (2' x 2').​

I like these garden plans. They always grow. Have fun.​

​"Garden Planning" from Gardening: An Ecological Approach​. © Fred Montague

​"Garden Planning" from Gardening: An Ecological Approach​. © Fred Montague