February 2025
| Moon Phase | Date | Garden Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Fist Quarter Moon 🌓 | Wednesday, February 5th | Plant or Harvest Aboveground Crops |
| Full Moon 🌕 | Wednesday, February 12th | Plant Root Crops |
| Last Quarter Moon🌗 | Thursday, February 20th | Barren Time, Turn Compost & Work Soil |
| New Moon🌑 | Thursday, February 27th | Plant Seeds and Transplants |
Groundhog Day Predictions
Sunday, February 2nd was Groundhog Day. This year the wise woodchuck council is not fully in agreement in our region. While the honorable representatives from West Virginia and Ohio are in agreement that we will have an early spring, Pennsylvania dissented and called for 6 more weeks of winter. Nevertheless, here are February’s gardening tasks.
Week 6 – February 3rd to February 9th
Apply lime and fertilizer
Order fruit trees
Build a high tunnel
Seed head lettuce (indoors)
Turn compost
Build a low tunnel or cold frame
Seed leeks (indoors)
Seed cauliflower (indoors)
Seed celery (indoors)
Clean dust from houseplants with damp cloth
Seed carrots, leafy salad greens and radishes in high tunnel
Week 7 – February 10th to February 16th
Friday, February 14th – Valentine’s Day
Start a kitchen herb garden
Prune grapes
Seed broccoli and cabbage (indoors)
Seed collards and kale (indoors)
Seed peas (outdoors) south of U.S. Rt. 60
Order seed potatoes
Plant Irish potatoes in high tunnel
Prune blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, elderberries and fruit trees
Week 8 – February 17th to February 23rd
Monday, February 17th – Presidents Day
Seed carrots, onions and greens in cold frame or low tunnel
Apply lime sulfur to blueberries
Apply dormant oil spray to fruit trees
Prune deciduous trees and shrubs
Mow asparagus Ferns
Propagate grapes and blueberries from hardwood cuttings
Propagate elderberries from cuttings
Order cold-hardy fig plants
Week 9 – February 24th to February 28th
Pre-sprout seed potatoes
Build a raised bed garden
Seed celery as transplants
Prune figs
