Does anyone use the Farmers Almanac anymore for gardening (vegetables)

[tulsanurse1]

Just kinda wondered if anyone use the Farmers Almanac to determine their planting times, etc...

[stevenkh1]

Originally Posted by tulsanurse1

Just kinda wondered if anyone use the Farmers Almanac to determine their planting times, etc...

Yep - I plant by the moon as my farming parents, grandparents and their ancestors did before me. We swear by it.

[lefty_logan]

I dont use it but I get it every year and it's how I found this amazing website.

[nik.martin]

I also found Tomatoville after reading last years article about the guy that raises all the tomatoes and mails seeds all over. I think he frequents here too. We're blessed to have guys like that around.

[brog]

YES YES I do and I think it works. My parents-grand parents did, good enough for them still o. k. for me.

[korney19]

I SHUDDERED when they said the optimal time to plant tomato seeds was FEBRUARY 26th-28th!!!! Our last frost date is around May 18th-20th.

[desertlzbn]

I really think it depends on where you live, if they had a regional one maybe that would be ok, but here we need to plant out at least my mid Feb-1st of March.

[tulsanurse1]

I wonder if back when it was always used by farmers if a lot of farmers lost their crops when they were told to plant but the frosts in there area weren't over.

[brog]

Back in the good old days farmers used common judgment in reading the Almanac. If your plant out date is 4/15(last frost) they used feb moon to start seed. If plant out date was may they used same moon IN APIRIL AS last of fEB=1ST. OF MARCH as SEED START date. Those duimp old farmers had good common judgment.(I believe). Good Luck Bill