In December, gardeners and vegetable growers focus their attention on ensuring that their plants survive the winter safely.
We'll tell you what the lunar calendar advises you to do at your dacha from December 2 to 8.
December 2
In a heated greenhouse you can plant carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic, beans, turnips, beets, cilantro, basil, celery, sorrel, spinach, and any ornamental plants.
Also on this day you can plant berry and fruit crops, prepare seeds of garden crops, remove weeds, water, graft, and apply organic fertilizers.
You cannot spray plants with chemicals.
December 3
A favorable day for picking seedlings, planting any plants in containers with soil, harvesting seeds and preparing them for sowing, watering, adding organic fertilizers, rooting cuttings, setting mouse traps.
You can also plant flowers (in a greenhouse), fruit and berry crops, graft, and treat for diseases and pests without using toxic preparations.
December 4
The day is favorable for any planting, application of organic fertilizers, moderate watering, rooting of cuttings, grafting.
In open ground, you can work on snow retention. You cannot treat plants with pesticides.
December 5
You can't plant anything. You should also refrain from watering.
The day is suitable for digging and loosening the soil, treating plants from diseases and pests, pruning, and grafting.
You can also trample down the snow around the trunks, wrap the trunks with spruce branches or netting to protect them from mice.
Do not apply repellents to the bark: wet a rag and bury it in the snow near the tree.
December 6
An excellent day for tending the beds in the greenhouse (loosening the soil, thinning and hilling the seedlings), preparing the soil for planting bulbous plants.
Also, in the greenhouse, you should repair the seals and check the ventilation and heating systems.
In addition, the day is suitable for repairing buildings and fences, whitewashing tree trunks, pruning, grafting, shaking snow off branches, purchasing equipment, consumables and seeds.
You shouldn't water plants unless absolutely necessary.
December 7
You can plant cucumbers, sweet peppers, herbs, annual and climbing flowers.
The day is also suitable for thinning out seedlings, removing plant debris, treating the greenhouse with antifungal preparations and antiseptics, replacing seals, trimming branches, cutting off knots, applying fertilizers, moving snow from paths under young trees, working with supports for tomatoes and climbing plants, and watering.
December 8
In the greenhouse you can plant vegetable seedlings, annual flowers, and ornamental shrubs.
The day is also favorable for sanitary pruning, cleaning paths, laying out bird food, applying fertilizers, treating plants from diseases and pests, picking plants sown under the signs of Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio, and watering.
For reference
The lunar calendar is a type of calendar based on the period of changing phases of the Moon, that is, the synodic month.
