In the past, gardening was determined by numerous rules that dictated the agricultural calendar. Every day of the year had its own name and purpose. Many folk signs for the garden remained today.

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  Indeed, in the history of Russia there has not yet been such a period that the people could massively abandon the cultivation of garden crops in their area. Even the well-to-do segments of the population do not disdain to start a bed with dill near the country house.

Signs about the sowing period

In conditions of central Russia, and even more so in its northern regions, the issue of planting dates is always very acute. If you put seeds in the ground ahead of time, they may not rise due to cold weather and excessive moisture. And if it is late, then the earth will dry up, then all the same the shoots will not wait. Previously, the sowing time was determined in two ways. First, they took off their shoes and felt with their own foot whether the ground was warm enough. Secondly, they dug for a sample. If a lump rises whole from the ground, and then crumbles easily, then it is time to sow.

  There are other folk signs that facilitate the life of the gardener.
  • Blooming snowdrops - a sign to plant petunias, asters, carnations on seedlings. Also sow tomato seedlings.
  • They covered willow twigs with fluffs, which means it's time to sow carrots, parsley, lettuce, radishes, asparagus.
  • The cuckoo singing, the arrival of the swallows are the signs that determine the beginning of the sowing of beets, peas, beans, white cabbage seedlings.
  • The flowering of crocuses signals that you can sow delphinium, onions-batun.
  • If on birch leaves have become the size of a centimeter, the bird cherry blossomed, then they begin to plant potatoes.
  • Lilac bloom - time for planting cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, marjoram, tomatoes in greenhouses.
  • The appearance on the nettle of the 2nd row of leaves shows that it is possible to plant late cabbage.
  • If wild rose has bloomed, then tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and cucumbers can be planted in open ground.
  • Cherry in bloom - you can start planting spicy greens, accustomed to the warm climate.
  • The final sign that there will be no frost this season is the flowering of mountain ash.
  • It is noticed that the roots, planted in the full moon, well born.

Superstition about sowing seeds

Garden signs are based on observations of nature and its features. For centuries people have compared various facts, revealed correspondences. As a result, a whole system emerged that guided the cultivation of vegetables and flowers for more than one century. But not only signs, but also folk superstitions have reached our time, which is practically impossible to explain from a logical point of view. Among them are the following:

  • Sunflowers sow after sunset, and the law of silence must be observed.
  • It is better to sow peas at dawn.
  • Carrots should be sown so that no one sees.
  • Pumpkin sown on market days.
  • Watermelons can not be planted in boots.
  • Any culture is better to plant so that the neighbors did not see.
  • During sowing, do not borrow money.
  • Sowing is better to lead in women's days - Wednesday, Friday.
  • And most importantly - any planting and planting work should be carried out in a good mood. If you get angry, nothing will grow.

Signs to increase yield

The main goal of any gardener and gardener - a rich harvest. People's experience in increasing yields is entrenched in signs and superstitions.

  • To make a potato well born, it is better to plant it on a day when the sky is blue, and there are snow-white small clouds on it.
  • On Ivan Kupalu break a willow, twigs laid out on the beds.
  • To thieves do not deprive the harvest, the garden is surrounded by aspen stakes driven into the ground. You need to drive them in the corners.
  • To the garden and the garden to enjoy the fruits, they bury the husks of Easter eggs and cones of consecrated willow into the ground. Crushed sacred prosphora from the Annunciation are buried in every corner.
  • When cucumbers do not bear fruit for a long time, they get rid of wasteland as follows: they tear flowers and at dawn they are taken to the road that the cows walk on.
  • To save the cabbage from eating the caterpillars, they gather caterpillars in the neighboring garden, boil them together with euphorbia, and the resulting broth sprinkles the cabbage.

Signs about the behavior in the garden

There are a number of beliefs about how to behave when you are in the garden so that the harvest will be rich. And pests and diseases did not touch the landing. The most common folk signs are listed below:

Going to the garden and the garden should be on a full stomach. Therefore, they first eat, then begin to work. If you work hungry, a good harvest will never be.

Signs of weeds and pests

An important role in the safe cultivation of valuable crops is played by weed and pest control. For this, too, have their own beliefs that help in order to keep the garden and the garden. It is believed that all harvested weeds need to be put in one place, and burned on a fire in the Kupala night.

Then the weeds will not strongly fill the garden until the end of the season. On the plot of belief, it is forbidden to click seeds, this leads to the appearance of insect pests, from which it is very difficult to get rid of.

Nature will tell you what and when to plant. Be sure to save this information for yourself!

In recent years, the weather is very unpredictable, so the timing of sowing cultivated plants is best checked by nature.

The beginning of spring gardener - the day when the coltsfoot is blooming. From this day in the old days, they started counting the time for the start of spring work.

On the 11th day, whitewashed trees, loosened the ground, raked the leaves, planted fruit trees saplings.

On the 14th day they began to plow the land and prepare the beds.

On the 23rd day, it was possible to plant early vegetables: onions, beets, turnips, parsley, carrots, peas, radishes, radishes.

After 30 days planted early potatoes. But if the coltsfoot blooms before the Annunciation (April 7), then it is better to postpone the planting of potatoes until the bird cherry blossoms. In general, for potatoes there is a rule that has been proven over centuries: it is planted not earlier than the leaves on a birch plant bloom, but no later than bird cherry blooms.

There are other natural tips gardeners.
As soon as hazel is covered with fluffy inflorescences, you can begin to sow in open ground. Radish and early spinach are the most suitable cultures for this time. From flowers you can sow calendula, cornflowers and poppies.

The blooming of forsythia and violets suggests that the time has come for sowing carrots and parsley, flowers of godezii and iberis.

The appearance of fluffy clumps of willow and flowering daffodils means that it is time to sow lettuce, early radish, kohlrabi cabbage, savoy and red cabbage. Daisies, lupins, rezedu, annual phlox, sweet peas are planted out of flowers at this time. A few days later, you can plant peas and beets.

As soon as the leaves of the oak have blossomed, it means there will be no more frosts, and the time has come for sowing heat-loving crops: beans, squash, cucumbers, pumpkin.

Rowan and lilac bloomed - you can safely sow cucumbers and seedlings of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, physalis.

Let these old-fashioned tips help you navigate the planting dates and get a good harvest.

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  Folk omens always helped gardeners in planting seeds and seedlings. In recent times, the weather has become unpredictable, and therefore it is better to check the dates of sowing by nature. Here, and today, we invite you to familiarize yourself with such signs to get a rich harvest.

Folk signs of planting a vegetable garden - what and when

Potatoes cannot be planted - it will be damaged in Palm Week, on Wednesday and Saturday. And when the elder or the bird cherry blossoms and they plant it. Take an interest.

As soon as the coltsfoot begins to bloom, this is the beginning of spring for the gardener. It is from this day that in the old days it is necessary to count 11 days and whitewash the trees, scrape the foliage, loosen the ground, plant the saplings of the trees. On the 14th day they plowed the land, marked up the beds. And on the 23rd day it is already possible to plant early vegetables:

  • turnip and beets;
  • radish and radish;
  • carrots and peas;
  • parsley and onions.

In early spring, they sow onions and cabbages at the fourth and fifth week of Lent. In late spring - the last days of Holy Week, best on Saturday.

Planting vegetable crops according to national signs


Sunflowers, when planted, are silent and the seeds do not nibble. You need to do on Saturday until the sun has risen. Better after calling.

It is forbidden to sow beets in the Holy Week.

Peas are sown at dawn. It is possible and on a passionate Thursday, and on Saturday. The best time is the end of April or the beginning of May, when the oak tree develops.

Soak carrots in the early morning. Sow seeds without outsiders.

Pumpkin sits on Tuesday or market day.

It is necessary to sow bread when the earrings burst at the birch.

Radish, red cabbage, early radish, lettuce, kohlrabi are the time when only daffodils will start to bloom or fluffy lambs will appear on the willow.

Corn, dill - in cherry color.

When planting seeds and seedlings according to national signs

Nature allows each seed to express itself in the harvest.

  1. Seed onions sow when frogs ferment.
  2. Carrots and parsley - when flowering violets and hazel.
  3. The cabbage lettuce is sown, only the lilac will begin to bloom and the meadow bathing will be lit up.
  4. Oats are best sown as soon as the frogs ferment. Late date - with the color of apple trees.
  5. Barley - when on the oak trees leaves with a penny will be.
  6. Cucumbers and tomatoes - with the color of mountain ash or viburnum. At the same time, squash and pumpkin are planted.

Hazel blossoms covered - time of planting in open ground:

  • spinach;
  • radish;
  • poppy;
  • calendula

Folk signs of planting a vegetable garden will help to root seeds, seedlings and seedlings.

When you can not plant and sow. Video

If you do not know when and what to plant in your garden, refer to the popular wisdom of gardeners. From Pro100 city   under the heading "All about seedlings."

When can I plant? How to determine soil maturity? There are various folk signs and agronomical experience in determining the timing of planting vegetable and flower plants.

Despite the unimportant weather conditions, at least in our country, we already hope that we will soon go out to the gardens!

When can I plant?

Recently, in our area, the symptoms of climate warming are becoming increasingly apparent. Increasingly in summer, weather conditions are similar to conditions in the steppe zone, and we are forest-steppe. A couple of hot summer seasons - and we are in a panic. In this regard - there was a strong tendency to plant ALL as soon as possible.

Last year, taught by the hot 2010s, the neighbors planted everything they could on April 5th (of course, it was warmer). So what? Seeds in the cold ground have lain right up to warm days. And the fact that we sowed a little later, and the neighboring garden, was growing up cultures at the same time, when the real soil maturity.

It is obvious that the principal in the matter "When can I plant?"   There is not an example of a neighbor, not past experience (where is the guarantee that the weather conditions will repeat? For example, last summer was expected to be hot, but it turned out very rainy and not so “hot”, and, as a result, phytophtora, etc.) , the fundamental point in choosing the timing of landing is soil maturity
  There are several agronomic tricks how to determine soil maturity:

  • Sharpen the stick and stretch over the plowed area. If the soil is not smeared, but crumbles - the soil is ready for the start of spring work.
  • On the ripe soil in sunny weather brightens, dries 2/3 of the ridges in the plowed area.
  • Take a little earth from a depth of 5-10 cm, squeeze it in your hands and throw it down from a meter height:
    • if the lump is falling apart evenly, the soil is ready for processing;
  • if it crumbled completely, the soil stood, it dried up and was already late ...
  • if the lump remained intact, and only not much was deformed - it is necessary, wait.

As the point "already late" most frightening. In the spring, the moisture evaporates so quickly, you have to keep your finger on the pulse so that the question “when can I plant seeds?” Does not become rhetorical. ;)

When you can plant -

It is noteworthy that the people have watched the natural changes and have already developed sustainable folk omens about the nature of the harvest.

Personally, we are very cute signs associated with plants, trees that grow in a particular area and signal their blooming, flowering about the beginning of a new round of development in nature, the new temperature regime. Peculiar natural calendar.

What affects flowering, germination:

  • temperature,
  • humidity.

If, for example, a birch grows near our plot, can its leaf opening be a guide? I think - quite, because all the weather conditions for the birch and for the potatoes on my site are the same. And, given these folk omens about the weather for the harvest, the adjustment of natural climatic zones occurs automatically, because the same birch is dissolved in each region, in each region in its time.

We are blooming, and in Krasnodar and the Crimea, everything has already been sown much earlier spring, and it has already, probably. And in the Moscow region still continues floriculture.

In a word - to take into account clearly does not hurt!

  • On the birch leaves reach the size of a penny coin - can be planted   potatoes, cabbage seedlings, dahlias, lilies;
  • Yellow acacia blooms - you can plant cucumbers;
  • Mother and stepmother are blooming - carrots can be planted;
  • cherry blossoms — you can squeeze potatoes, beans, beans;
  • Poplar fluff flies - you can plant cucumbers;
  • Proleski bloom, snowdrops - you can plant for seedlings   tomatoes, pepper, ageratum, cloves, geraniums, petunias, asters;
  • Hazel blooms - sowing cold-resistant crops into open ground begins. This is a signal that the soil will not freeze, although frost is still possible! You can plant sorrel, radishes, spinach, calendula, poppy.
  • Crocuses bloom - you can plant onions on the feather;
  • Fluffy "seals" on a willow - time to sow lettuce, cabbage, daisies, lupine, annual phlox, resedu.
  • Forsythia and aspen have blossomed - the time to sow carrots and parsley, iberis and boles
  • Daffodils bloomed - we plant seedlings of early and cauliflower in open ground, sow peas and beets, sweet peas
  • Violet has bloomed - you can plant dill, parsley, carrots;
  • Cherry blossomed - we sow spicy herbs, dill, greens, pumpkins, squash, squash;
  • Lilac has flowered - annual lianas, lettuce
  • The color of viburnum is also a signal that it is time to sow cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin.
  • Peonies bloom - time to sow cucumbers, pumpkin, sweet corn
  • The leaves on the oak - we sow cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, watermelons, melons, sweetcorn
  • Irises bloom - time to plant seedlings of Brussels sprouts in open ground
  • I got hawthorn - we sow corn, sunflower, late varieties of potatoes, we plant
  • A chestnut tree has flowered - we plant seedlings of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants in open ground, sow beets, summer radish and radish varieties
  • Cuckoo cuckoo -time sow flax
  • The color of red rowan indicates that boldly can be planted   seedlings of pepper, tomatoes, frost should not be.

Do folk signs about nature to harvest?

Increasingly, the opinion sounds that popular signs are no longer relevant, do not work. They say that the climate change has been significant, there were completely different weather conditions in ancient times, and environmental factors influence plant growth, much in nature, if not distorted, then at least changed.

Quite possible. In our opinion, not all signs about the nature of the harvest can be so skeptical. For example, it seems to me that it is possible to give trust to those given above.

Well, but something like: “Sow cucumbers on Leontius and Falalea”, “After Ivan, you don’t need to have a zhupan”,
  “Ustina and Khariton are preparing to give birth to rye, and the martyr Lukyan to spring”, of course, in our time it may no longer be relevant, since the time of the beginning of spring, the first warm days, compared with the old times, when such signs were made up, has changed significantly.

In addition, many agree that the signs and the national calendar, and the nature of the harvest, are suitable only for flat terrain, so to speak, the perfect terrain, for hilly regions signs are not suitable.

The best option, I think it will be an integrated approach, and agronomical methods of determining soil   on ripenessand folk omens about the nature of the harvest.

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Calendar farmer formed many centuries ago. And this did not happen by chance, but due to the systematic observations of our ancestors about the changes in the weather, the development of plants and the behavior of animals. As a result, by now, a whole stratum of popular signs has been formed, allowing a gardener to understand when it is better to start cultivating the land and sowing certain crops without a synoptic prediction.

  • In the spring to take a shovel in the hands of popular wisdom advises March 18. No wonder the saint, to whom this day is dedicated, was nicknamed Konon-gardener. However, the first landing signs recommend to make much later.
  • By May 1 (to Kuzma) popular beliefs suggest planting carrot and beet seeds in a garden. After all, the gentle-looking shoots of these crops tolerate cold morning performances, which are still very likely in May. In addition, late-ripening varieties intended for long-term storage will take a long time to mature. Consider that, according to the signs, the beets planted in the Holy Week are not likely to be born.
  • By May 5 (on Luka) it is time to plant a bow. This vegetable should have time to grow and ripen over the period of not too long summer of the Middle Band. But the seeds for seedling should be thrown into the garden as soon as the frogs begin to organize their spring concerts.
  • Starting from May 6 (Yegoria), if the weather permits, you can start planting in the open ground of those vegetables that are grown through seedlings.
  • Every gardener knows that cabbage is planted in the open ground with already prepared seedlings. But the day for the timely transfer of planting material Arina-sprouts determines May 18.
  • May 27 is not in vain nicknamed Sydor borage. Our ancestors considered this day suitable for sowing cucumbers. However, if the morning is cold and overcast, it is better to postpone the landing until a later time. At the same time, it is worth remembering that folk omens are considered to be June 2 (Falalea) as the deadline for this event.
  • Peas should be planted only when the first leaves begin to bloom on the oaks. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the wind. If it blows from the north or west, it is better to postpone the planting at a later date, otherwise the crop will be small and worms.
  • Beans - the culture is more thermophilic than peas, and therefore their wisdom advances their planting period to push back to Isaac (June 12).
  • For timely planting of such an important crop as potatoes, bird cherry will be the best "adviser". After all, knowledgeable gardeners throw tubers into the ground only when this tree is dressed in a fragrant cloud of flowers. Simultaneously with the potatoes, it is advisable to plant and seedlings of cabbage.
  • If someone from negligent gardeners was delayed in planting cabbage on the beds, then according to signs, the last opportunity for this will be June 25. This day is popularly called the "belated skull".
  • Do you dream to grow large and sweet turnips? The best time for her landing folk wisdom believes July 6 (Agrafenu). However, for early harvest, it can be planted with other cold-resistant vegetables (radishes, carrots, radishes and beets) 23 days after the start of flowering of the mother and stepmother.
  • According to popular belief, pumpkin is best planted on Tuesday or on market day. Such a vegetable will grow the largest, sweet and juicy. But you should start planting when the mountain ash and viburnum bloom.
  • Our ancestors knew that the lettuce roam was going well if you started planting it at the moment when the blossoming lilacs decorate the gardens and parks.
  • Useful spinach can be sown only when the closest bush of hazel is covered with buds.