Description
Plan your planting by the moon, the whole year at a glance
Gardeners have planted by the moon for generations. This poster puts the whole of 2027 on one sheet, so a quick look in the shed or on the pantry door tells you whether today is a good day to sow, plant out or just pull weeds.
What’s on the poster
- Every day of 2027 in one easy grid, with the moon drawn the way you actually see it in Australia (a growing moon is lit on the left, not the right like overseas calendars).
- Colour-coded planting days: the best and next best days for leafy crops, fruiting crops, and root crops, perennials and fruit trees, plus “rest the beds” days for weeding, composting and mulching.
- No-sowing days marked: the days of each new moon, quarter moon and full moon, with the exact time.
- The moon’s sign each day, with the fertile and semi-fertile signs explained.
- Other garden jobs by the moon: when to transplant seedlings, take cuttings, feed, prune and pick for storing.
- Moon phase times for every state in your own local clock time, with daylight saving already allowed for. No adding or subtracting hours.
- A QR code that opens the live moon calendar in the GardenBuddy.au app, showing the best days for the crops that are in season where you live.
How to use it
First check what’s in season for your zone. Then pick a coloured day that suits the crop: leafy (lettuce, silverbeet, cabbage, herbs), fruiting (tomatoes, beans, pumpkin, corn, zucchini), or roots and perennials (carrots, potatoes, garlic, onions, fruit trees, berries). The season picks the month. The moon picks the day.
An honest word
Planting by the moon is an old tradition that plenty of good gardeners enjoy. It isn’t proven by science, so treat it as a rhythm for the month, not a reason to sow out of season or skip the basics of good soil, water and mulch. All moon times are worked out for 2027 from astronomical data.
What you get
- One PDF, A2 landscape (594 × 420 mm), ready to print.
- Free with every paid GardenBuddy.au membership (Starter, Pro and Plant Check). Log in and download it from this page.
Printing tips
- Take the PDF to Officeworks (or order online for click and collect) as an A2 colour poster.
- For a calendar you’ll read up close, choose satin paper. It has less glare than gloss.
- The standard coated paper is the cheaper option and works well in a shed.
For personal use
This poster is for your own garden. Please don’t sell or reprint it for sale.
