12/30/2025
What does the 2026 Farmers Almanac recommend for planting in January?
1st - 2nd - Poor day for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
3rd - 4th - Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Most fruitful time for planting beets, carrots, onions, and other hardy root crops in the Deep South.
5th - 8th - Barren days, do no planting. Best for killing weeds, briars, poison ivy, and other plant pests. Clear wood lots and fencerows.
9th - 10th - A favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
11th - 13th - Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, turnips, onions, beets, Irish potatoes, other root crops in the South. Also good for leafy vegetables.
14th - 15th - Do no planting. Good harvest days.
16th - 18th - First two days are good planting days for root crops where climate permits. Last day is good for planting aboveground crops such as sweet corn, beans, and peppers in southern Florida, Texas, and California.
19th - 20th - A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting
21st - 23rd - Extra good for peppers, tomatoes, peas and other vine crops. Fine for planting any aboveground crop where the climate permits.
24th - 25th - Barren days, do no planting.
26th - 27th - Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
28th - 29th - Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.
30th - 31st - Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting days for aboveground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate is suitable.