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Growing
Saturday, 8 March 2031

Planting calendar: Fruit day

Moon in Leo · descending
Moon phase
Waxing Moon
Moon’s path
descending
Constellation
Leo · 152.6°
Constellation change
none
Distance
389,665 km
Day quality
favourable
What suits the home garden on this day
  • Start tomatoes and sweet peppers somewhere warm
  • Strawberries: clean up the rows, remove mulch
  • Start courgettes and pumpkins (end of March)
  • Plant fruit trees
Preparations

What is due on this day

Horn manure 500

Descending Moon: favourable

Best evening

favourable
Horn silica 501

Fruit day (Warmth trigon): especially favourable

Best morning

favourable
Valerian 507

Fruit day (Warmth trigon): especially favourable · Risk of frost: apply in the evening

Best evening

favourable
Barrel compost BC

Descending Moon: favourable

Best evening

favourable
Horsetail 508

Best morning

possible
Compost preparations 502–506 + 507
possible
The week

Choose a day

Weather

Weather for your location

Enter a postcode or share your location — then the forecast for the next 14 days appears here, with a frost warning.

Nature’s season

Pre-spring

Hazel & snowdrops in flower

Average onset dates in Germany (Deutscher Wetterdienst).

  • First sowing under glass (sweet pepper, chilli, aubergine)
  • Prepare beds when frost-free
  • Spread compost
Look ahead

The next good days

Root
Leaf
Flower
Fruit

Favourable means: no lunar node, no perigee, and for root and leaf no apogee either.

Astronomical calculations after Jean Meeus · IAU constellation boundaries · All information without guarantee