Gardening By The Moon | Mid-Summer Transplants

Use the Fruitful Signs to Move Your Plants Around

We are reaching the high point of the garden season here in the mid-Atlantic. As the flowers and herbs are reaching their fullness, the color and placement that I visualized in the spring is unfolding before me. I can see color, size and placement, and I can also see where I'd like to move things around. Though you wouldn't normally think that high summer is a time to do this, I've learned that with the help of the moon signs, I can successfully transplant fully grown plants that will grow and flourish for the remainder of the season! 

I really enjoy the design aspect of gardening, and to be able to tinker with the arrangement when you can see everything is a game changer.  It's so much harder to do when things are just getting started and you're having to guess how big they'll get, if they'll like the spot, what color they'll turn out to be, etc. So this is fun! Here's what I do.

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