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June’s Lunar Garden Planting & Transplanting

June 3rd, 2011

My favorite days of June are here!

The kids are officially home for summer vacation.  Our days will be filled with walks, swimming, cookouts, swimming, library visits, swimming, bike rides, swimming.

I ♥ Summer!!

As a side note to the lunar planting, our summer solstice (here in the North) will be happening on June 21st.  And on Wednesday June 15th there will be a full moon with a lunar eclipse.  We had three awesome group meditations for the New Moon and solar eclipse on June 1st.  The group meet on the Full Moon promises to be awesome!  If you’d like to attend, you can sign up here.

At 4:36am EDT yesterday, Friday June 3rd, the moon reentered the sign of Cancer.  That means I’m spending the weekend transplanting the seeds that I started in Cancer last month.  I love playing in the garden!

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This month’s transplanting schedule is as follows:

Saturday June 4th is waxing in Cancer.  I’m transplanting cabbage, lettuces, tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, and my herbs.

Sunday June 12th is waxing in Scorpio.  I’ll be transplanting beans, squash, peas, peppers, and pumpkin.

Tuesday June 14th is waxing in Sagittarius.  Time to transplant the onions.

Thursday June 16th is waning in Capricorn.  Good for potatoes, beets, carrots, and radishes.

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The best days to destroy weeds and trim to retard growth are:

Tuesday June 7th and all day Wednesday the 8th~

Tuesday June 14th and  Wednesday June 15th~

Saturday June 18th and Sunday June 19th~

Thursday June 24th and Friday June 25th~

Tuesday June 28th and Wednesday June 29th~

These all make great days for mowing the lawn too ;)

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Favorite Memories & Finding a Better Way

May 9th, 2011

Greetings Friends!

I hope all you mothers had a great day yesterday, and I hope all you children spent time with your mothers.

Here are some of my favorite moments in mother history.

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This is my mom and I on Easter 1980, one day before my first birthday~

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Michael 2yrs 10 months and Eddie 6 months

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Michael 5 and Eddie 3

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Alan, Michael, and Eddie

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And being that I am eight years older than my oldest brother, and thirteen years older than my youngest brother, they were really like my kids too….

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~ J and D ~

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But they’re not so little anymore.  Here is my new favorite pic of us.  This is us at the creek for Mother’s Day for our annual, family picnic.

Me n Bros

There was rum at the picnic. __Snicker*__

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After we got home from the picnic, I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening with my hands in the dirt, tilling and planting.  I got my new garden beds dug out and refilled with compost on Saturday, so yesterday was spent just playing in the dirt and planting the first round that was scheduled to go in while the moon is in Cancer.

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Tomorrow is the group call with Guruji!  I’m finding myself really super excited about it.

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Today, I’m building a split-rail fence out of twine and substantial sticks from the woods.  I refuse to spend up to a couple hundred dollars for fencing to go around my garden bed when I have four acres of natural, unsprayed materials that are free and green.  The sole purpose of the fence is to catch and disperse errant dog pee.

The dog isn’t picky on price.

He’s an equal opportunity urinater.

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May’s Lunar Garden Planting

May 3rd, 2011

Today I’m taking advantage of the New Moon happening RIGHT at the beginning of May, and I’ve been sitting here planning my planting schedule for the month.

Here’s what I ended up with after an hour.

The List

Which I translated over into a second form….

The Calendar

And there you have it.  A lunar planting calendar for the month of May, 2011.

From Friday May 6th @ 10:32 pm EDT until Monday May 9th @ 5:35 am EDT the moon is in its first waxing quarter and in Cancer.  This is the perfect time for me to plant my lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, and herbs. *** That’s this coming weekend! ***

From Friday May 13th @ 11:56 am EDT until Sunday May 15th @ 12:31 pm EDT the moon is in its second waxing quarter and in Libra.  This is the ideal time to plant flowers.  Especially sunflowers. *** That’s next weekend! ***

From Sunday May 15th @ 12:31 pm EDT until Tuesday May 17th @ 7:09 am EDT the moon is in its second waxing quarter and in Scorpio.  These are the days to be planting my beans, zucchini, pumpkin, peppers, and peas.

From Tuesday May 17th @ 1:22 pm EDT until Thursday May 19th @ 10:17 am EDT the moon is in its third waning quarter and in Sagittarius.  Here is where we plant our onions.

From Thursday May 19th @ 4:16 pm EDT until Saturday May 21st @ 5:04 am EDT the moon is in its third waning quarter and in Capricorn.  This is the time in the cycle to plant the potatoes, beets, and radishes.

And finally, on Tuesday May 24th from 8:24 am EDT until 2:52 pm EDT the moon is in its third waning quarter and in Pisces.  In this small window of six and a half hours, get those carrots in the ground!

May 27th, 28th, and June 1st are PERFECT days to trim and weed to retard growth.

And that’s the garden!

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