🌙 Moon Garden Calendar

Gardening by the Moon Calendar — for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar & Outlook

Subscribe once, and the best lunar days to sow, transplant, prune and harvest appear in the calendar you already use — updated automatically, forever.

Get the planting calendar Just the moon phases

Moon phases in your calendar

The moon-phase feed puts 🌑 new moon, 🌓 first quarter, 🌕 full moon and 🌗 last quarter in your calendar as all-day events, with the exact time in the description. No account, no email — just subscribe. Pick the region closest to you (it decides which date a phase lands on):

How to subscribe (step by step)

Google Calendar
  1. Click Copy https URL above for your region.
  2. Open calendar.google.com on a computer (the mobile app can’t add feeds — but once added, it shows them).
  3. In the left sidebar, find Other calendars and click the + next to it.
  4. Choose From URL.
  5. Paste the URL into the box and click Add calendar.
  6. Done — it now appears under “Other calendars” on every device where you use Google Calendar.
Apple Calendar (iPhone / iPad)
  1. Easiest: tap Subscribe (webcal) above and confirm — that’s it.
  2. Manual way: open Settings, then Apps → Calendar → Calendar Accounts (on older iOS: Settings → Calendar → Accounts).
  3. Tap Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar.
  4. Paste the https URL and tap Next, then Save.
Apple Calendar (Mac)
  1. Open the Calendar app.
  2. In the menu bar, choose File → New Calendar Subscription…
  3. Paste the https URL and click Subscribe.
  4. Set Auto-refresh to “Every day”, then click OK.
Outlook
  1. Click Copy https URL above for your region.
  2. Open Outlook on the web and go to the calendar view.
  3. Click Add calendar in the left panel.
  4. Choose Subscribe from web.
  5. Paste the URL, give the calendar a name (e.g. “Moon phases”), and click Import.

How gardening by the moon works

Gardening by the moon — the heart of every biodynamic calendar — follows two rhythms. First, waxing and waning: as the moon grows from new to full, tradition says sap rises, favouring sowing above-ground crops; as it wanes from full to new, energy settles downward — the time to sow root crops, transplant, prune and harvest for storage. Second, the moon’s path through the zodiac: every ~2.5 days it enters a new sign, and each sign’s element marks the day. Earth signs make 🥕 root days (carrots, potatoes, onions), water signs 🌿 leaf days (lettuce, spinach, herbs), air signs 🌸 flower days (broccoli, cauliflower, flowers), fire signs 🍅 fruit days (tomatoes, beans, squash). To be honest: this is a centuries-old gardening tradition, not established science — but every date in these feeds is computed from real astronomical data.

The next 7 days, from the actual feed

This preview is rendered from the same data your calendar receives — regenerated every month.

  • Thu 9 Jul 🥕 Root Day · Waning Ideal day to sow and plant root crops. Moon in Taurus.
  • Fri 10 Jul 🥕 Root Day · Waning Ideal day to sow and plant root crops. Moon in Taurus.
  • Sat 11 Jul 🌸 Flower Day · Waning Cut flowers for the vase; transplant, prune and weed. Moon in Gemini.
  • Sun 12 Jul 🌸 Flower Day · Waning Cut flowers for the vase; transplant, prune and weed. Moon in Gemini.
  • Mon 13 Jul 🌿 Leaf Day · Waning Rest day — avoid sowing (near exact new/full moon). Moon in Cancer.
  • Tue 14 Jul 🌿 Leaf Day · Waxing Rest day — avoid sowing (near exact new/full moon). Moon in Cancer.
  • Wed 15 Jul 🍅 Fruit Day · Waxing Sow and plant fruiting, above-ground crops today. Moon in Leo.

The full lunar planting calendar

The full feed adds one guidance event every single day, on top of the moon phases:

  • 🥕🌿🌸🍅 Root / Leaf / Flower / Fruit day, based on the moon’s zodiac sign
  • Waxing or waning, with what that means: sow, transplant, prune, weed or harvest
  • 2–3 seasonal example crops for every day
  • Traditional rest days around the exact new and full moon
  • Rolling 18-month window, refreshed monthly, updates in your calendar automatically

Northern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

Same astronomy, crop examples matched to your seasons.

Subscribe the same way as the moon-phase feed — the step-by-step instructions above work for any of these URLs.

Questions gardeners ask

Does it update automatically?

Yes. This is a subscribed iCal feed (a “moon planting calendar subscription”), not a one-time file import. Your calendar app re-fetches it on its own schedule — Apple and Outlook typically daily, Google Calendar every 12–24 hours — and the feed always covers from one month back to 18 months ahead.

Which apps does it work with?

Anything that can subscribe to an iCal/ICS URL: Google Calendar, Apple Calendar (iPhone, iPad, Mac), Outlook web and desktop, Thunderbird, Fastmail, Proton Calendar and more. If your app has “subscribe from URL”, it works.

I’m in the Southern Hemisphere — is it correct for me?

Yes. Moon phases and zodiac positions are the same worldwide. The planting calendar comes in Southern Hemisphere editions in which the example crops match your seasons, plus an Asia-Pacific timezone edition so events land on the right date.

Is this astrology? Is there scientific proof?

Honest answer: gardening by the moon is a centuries-old tradition — from old farmers’ almanacs to today’s biodynamic calendars — and controlled studies have not shown a reliable effect on yields. We don’t claim otherwise. What we do guarantee: the astronomy is real. Every phase time and zodiac position is computed from precise astronomical algorithms, so if you want to garden by the moon, these are the correct days.

What about days when the moon changes sign?

The moon changes zodiac sign roughly every 2.5 days, sometimes mid-day. Such a day is attributed to the sign occupying the majority of that day in the feed’s reference timezone — that’s also why there are Europe/Africa, Americas and Asia-Pacific editions.