Okay. I meant to sow some seeds yesterday and today with waxing moon in Cancer but life overtook my good intentions.
My calendar gives the moon entering Leo at 5:24 am tomorrow morning. I always heard that moon in Leo is not a fertile position. I am laughing at myself how habitual my thinking has gotten, "oh, no, can't sow any seeds tomorrow, moon in Leo, won't be a good thing at all......."says habit mind.
But hey. What do you all think?
The seeds to be sown (this is wintersowing, too, BTW) are tomatoes, zinnias, marigolds, possible some other annual flowers, I don't know that anything else needs attention. I have lots of germinated containers out there...... have not sown these things yet though and itching to get started.
What do people feel about moon in Leo, is it that big a deal?
And in general, these kinds of "gray areas" --
TIA for any input here....
Kyla
Waxing moon in Leo and other iffy positions......
Well... Leo IS the most barren of all the signs. I'm curious to know if you did plant anything in Leo, and what results you see over time.
I'm fairly new at this, but my intentions are to take more notes this year for comparisons.
Thanks for responding, Darius. No, I did not sow...... I chose to wait til the 14th, 15th, moon in Scorpio just past full..... and then waxing moon in Taurus on the 28th and 29th. I exchanged emails with a couple of friends and one mentioned having had past success at weeding and destroying noxious plants during moon in Leo...... so that plus other factors decided my course. ;-) Thursday April 2nd first quarter moon in Cancer is another target date for me.
Cool. I sure wish I had done more weeding in Leo! Tomorrow I will dig in some support posts, and hopefully plant onion sets and transplant raspberries. It's still too cool here to think of planting, even cool-season crops.
Yes, I am going to remember the weeding in Leo part for sure, LOL!
I have two questions:
1. What is 'wintersowing'? Is it different than starting seeds indoors?
2. Do you all think that weeding in Leo can also be applied to laying clear plastic on a section of ground to kill the grass/weeds?
Wintersowing, as I understand it, is simply putting containers out (lots of people use milk jugs, I use old 1 gal. pots) with good soil and seeds that require a cycle of cold/warm spells to break their dormancy. The containers should be sheltered from too much direct sun, and also covered in some way (I use plastic sheeting with slashes in it for water to get through) for protection.
And since I was born a Leo, so I've got no problem with killing plants - LOL! Seriously though, I would make the plastic sheeting black - it will retain the heat a lot better, cooking the unwanted plants as well as helping raise the soil temps enough to also get rid of some of the lesser-wanted soil-borne pathogens. The black also blocks out sunlight, making it doubly-effective.
Here is the DG wintersowing forum, all your questions will be answered there and then some, LOL! I chose to WS everything because I have no room inside to start seeds, and because for so very many people it is an extremely successful method. Working for me so far!
the link:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/954677/
I'm sure lots of folks with Leo sun sign are excellent gardeners...... ;-) A very different energetic structure involved than the effect of moon sign on plant germination.
You're sweet to say that Kylaluaz - I'm not too bad with outdoor stuff, but I swear I can walk past one of those indoor Silver Queen plants and watch it wither...I tend to stay away from indoor plants - LOL!
Thanks, Kylaluaz. I will check out the link.
dryad57, fun to see you are in Indy! I grew up in Columbus, IN and was just back home Feb 14th for my Mom's funeral. Not such a fun reason to go home, but we drove past the two houses we lived in (all nine of us) and reminisced about all the gardening knowledge we learned from our Dad there.
Thanks for the weed/plant killing advice. I'm also hoping to kill all the grasshopper eggs I know are just lying in wait to hatch and ravage my gardens again this summer.
Susan
Susan - that's a beautiful town! My Mom lived there in an assisted living place for about a year before she passed (2 years ago this month). She always said it was one of the prettiest towns in IN in her opinion. Sorry to hear about your Mom, I do hope things are going well for you and yours. Wish I knew what advice to give for grasshopper eggs, the only thing I could think of was that spraying hydrogen peroxide on soil that has gnats in it will kill those eggs.....