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Planting by the Moon

Moon gardening calendar for November 2026

Today, November 3, 2026, is a root day under a waning Moon: repot houseplants.

  • Root day
  • Moon in Virgo
  • 🌘 Waning crescent
Calendar for November → Best days to plant →

Health, food, and garden notes for every day: today’s lunar calendar.

Today in the garden

Plant part
Root
Phase
🌘 Waning crescent
What to do
Repot houseplants

Today is a root day: the Moon is passing through Virgo, an earth sign, and lunar tradition links such days with root crops. The detailed notes for today, with crops for the season, are on the daily lunar calendar.

Best days to plant from today

An ideal day is one where the phase and the sign agree: above-ground crops under a waxing Moon on leaf, flower, and fruit days; root crops under a waning Moon on root days; transplanting and pruning under a waning Moon on leaf and flower days. Rest days—new moon, full moon, and perigee—never make the list.

Moon planting calendar November 2026

DatePhaseMoon signPlant partWhat to do
Sun Nov 1 🌗 Leo from 4:18 AM Fruit from 4:18 AM Repot houseplants
Mon Nov 2 🌘 Leo Fruit Repot houseplants
today, Nov 3 🌘 Virgo from 8:27 AM Root from 8:27 AM Repot houseplants ideal day
Wed Nov 4 🌘 Virgo Root Repot houseplants ideal day
Thu Nov 5 🌘 Virgo until 2:38 PM Root until 2:38 PM Repot houseplants ideal day
Fri Nov 6 🌘 Libra Flower Repot houseplants
Sat Nov 7 🌘 Libra until 10:39 PM Flower until 10:39 PM Repot houseplants
Sun Nov 8 🌘 Scorpio Leaf Repot houseplants
Mon Nov 9 🌑 Scorpio Leaf Rest and plan; do not sow
Tue Nov 10 🌒 Sagittarius from 8:35 AM Fruit from 8:35 AM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Wed Nov 11 🌒 Sagittarius Fruit Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Thu Nov 12 🌒 Sagittarius until 8:27 PM Fruit until 8:27 PM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Fri Nov 13 🌒 Capricorn Root Sow on the windowsill
Sat Nov 14 🌒 Capricorn Root Sow on the windowsill
Sun Nov 15 🌒 Aquarius from 9:24 AM Flower from 9:24 AM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Mon Nov 16 🌒 Aquarius Flower Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Tue Nov 17 🌓 Aquarius until 9:19 PM Flower until 9:19 PM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Wed Nov 18 🌔 Pisces Leaf Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Thu Nov 19 🌔 Pisces Leaf Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Fri Nov 20 🌔 Aries from 5:52 AM Fruit from 5:52 AM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Sat Nov 21 🌔 Aries Fruit Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Sun Nov 22 🌔 Taurus from 10:09 AM Root from 10:09 AM Sow on the windowsill
Mon Nov 23 🌔 Taurus Root Sow on the windowsill
Tue Nov 24 🌕 Gemini from 11:09 AM Flower from 11:09 AM Harvest; skip sowing and transplanting
Wed Nov 25 🌖 Gemini Flower Leave soil and plants alone (perigee)
Thu Nov 26 🌖 Cancer from 10:51 AM Leaf from 10:51 AM Repot houseplants
Fri Nov 27 🌖 Cancer Leaf Repot houseplants
Sat Nov 28 🌖 Leo from 11:20 AM Fruit from 11:20 AM Repot houseplants
Sun Nov 29 🌖 Leo Fruit Repot houseplants
Mon Nov 30 🌖 Leo until 2:12 PM Fruit until 2:12 PM Repot houseplants

When the Moon changes sign during the day, the calendar shows the time of the change; the day type follows the sign at noon UTC. The rules are explained below.

Calendar for December 2026

DatePhaseMoon signPlant partWhat to do
Tue Dec 1 🌗 Virgo Root Repot houseplants ideal day
Wed Dec 2 🌘 Virgo until 8:03 PM Root until 8:03 PM Repot houseplants ideal day
Thu Dec 3 🌘 Libra Flower Repot houseplants
Fri Dec 4 🌘 Libra Flower Repot houseplants
Sat Dec 5 🌘 Scorpio from 4:34 AM Leaf from 4:34 AM Repot houseplants
Sun Dec 6 🌘 Scorpio Leaf Repot houseplants
Mon Dec 7 🌘 Scorpio until 3:06 PM Leaf until 3:06 PM Repot houseplants
Tue Dec 8 🌘 Sagittarius Fruit Repot houseplants
Wed Dec 9 🌑 Sagittarius Fruit Rest and plan; do not sow
Thu Dec 10 🌒 Capricorn from 3:08 AM Root from 3:08 AM Sow on the windowsill
Fri Dec 11 🌒 Capricorn Root Sow on the windowsill
Sat Dec 12 🌒 Capricorn until 4:05 PM Root until 4:05 PM Sow on the windowsill
Sun Dec 13 🌒 Aquarius Flower Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Mon Dec 14 🌒 Aquarius Flower Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Tue Dec 15 🌒 Pisces from 4:35 AM Leaf from 4:35 AM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Wed Dec 16 🌒 Pisces Leaf Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Thu Dec 17 🌓 Pisces until 2:34 PM Leaf until 2:34 PM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Fri Dec 18 🌔 Aries Fruit Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Sat Dec 19 🌔 Aries until 8:29 PM Fruit until 8:29 PM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Sun Dec 20 🌔 Taurus Root Sow on the windowsill
Mon Dec 21 🌔 Taurus until 10:27 PM Root until 10:27 PM Sow on the windowsill
Tue Dec 22 🌔 Gemini Flower Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Wed Dec 23 🌔 Gemini until 9:58 PM Flower until 9:58 PM Sow on the windowsill ideal day
Thu Dec 24 🌕 Cancer Leaf Leave soil and plants alone (perigee)
Fri Dec 25 🌖 Cancer until 9:12 PM Leaf until 9:12 PM Repot houseplants
Sat Dec 26 🌖 Leo Fruit Repot houseplants
Sun Dec 27 🌖 Leo until 10:12 PM Fruit until 10:12 PM Repot houseplants
Mon Dec 28 🌖 Virgo Root Repot houseplants ideal day
Tue Dec 29 🌖 Virgo Root Repot houseplants ideal day
Wed Dec 30 🌗 Libra from 2:26 AM Flower from 2:26 AM Repot houseplants
Thu Dec 31 🌘 Libra Flower Repot houseplants

What to do in the garden in November

November is the time to winterize: spread compost or well-rotted manure on the beds, protect tree trunks from rodents and rabbits, and cover young plants with evergreen boughs. Fruit trees can still be planted until the ground freezes. Carrots and parsnips sown into cold soil before winter can give an early spring crop.

Seasonal advice is for the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere; south of the equator, swap the seasons and keep the phases and signs. Frost dates vary widely, so let your local ones have the final say.

The rules of planting by the moon

The tradition rests on two rules. Under a waxing Moon, from the new moon to the full moon, everything that bears above ground is sown and planted; under a waning Moon, from the full moon to the new moon, it is the turn of root crops, transplanting, and pruning. The sign the Moon is passing through adds the part of the plant that is said to do best that day:

SignsElementDay typeFavors
Taurus Virgo Capricorn Earth Root day Carrots, beets, potatoes, onions, garlic
Cancer Scorpio Pisces Water Leaf day Lettuce, spinach, cabbage, herbs, lawn
Gemini Libra Aquarius Air Flower day Broccoli, cauliflower, annuals, flower beds
Aries Leo Sagittarius Fire Fruit day Tomatoes, peppers, beans, squash, fruit

Three exceptions, when the seeds stay in the packet: the new moon (a day for planning), the full moon (harvest, not sowing), and perigee, the day the Moon is closest to Earth, when tradition leaves the soil and the plants alone. All three are marked in the calendar above. Why the phases change and how the cycle works: phases of the Moon.

Full moon, new moon, and perigee for gardeners

Full moons, new moons, phases, and eclipses for the whole year on one page: lunar calendar 2026; every day of this month: lunar calendar November 2026.

Why gardeners watch the Moon

Planting by the Moon is one of the oldest gardening traditions there is. Long before weather forecasts, farmers had one calendar that was reliable, visible, and repeated every 29.5 days, and they timed their work by it. The version most gardeners use today combines two observations: the phase of the Moon and the zodiac sign the Moon is passing through. The Old Farmer’s Almanac, published since 1792, still prints planting dates by the Moon’s phase; planting by the signs is older still, and the biodynamic sowing calendar that Maria Thun began publishing in the 1960s added the idea of root, leaf, flower, and fruit days.

The logic of the tradition goes like this: just as the Moon pulls the tides, it is said to move the water in the soil and the sap in plants. Under a waxing Moon the sap is said to rise into the parts above ground, so that is when leafy, flowering, and fruiting crops are sown and planted. Under a waning Moon it is said to flow back toward the roots, so root crops, transplanting, and pruning take their turn. The sign adds a finer layer: earth signs make root days, water signs leaf days, air signs flower days, and fire signs fruit days.

Does it really work?

Honestly, the evidence is thin. Studies are few, their results are mixed, and within something as small as a seedbed the Moon’s pull on water is too slight to detect. What the calendar gives every gardener, whatever they believe, is rhythm: a regular turn of sowing, tending, harvesting, and resting, so that nothing important gets forgotten and the beds get looked at every few days. Many gardeners use it exactly that way and judge it by their own harvest.

How to read this calendar

For each day the calendar shows the phase, the Moon’s sign, and the type of day that follows from the sign. The advice column combines both rules: when the phase and the sign favor the same group of plants, the day is an ideal one for sowing and planting that group, and those days are listed as the best days of the month.

There is no need to worry about missing the right day. Root, leaf, flower, and fruit days come around about every nine days, and the window for most jobs is weeks long. Weather, soil, and your own schedule always come first; if a root day brings rain, the carrots can wait.

Frequently asked questions

When to plant according to the moon?

In lunar gardening tradition, crops that bear above ground (leafy greens, flowers, fruiting vegetables) are sown and planted under a waxing Moon, from the new moon to the full moon, and root crops under a waning Moon, from the full moon to the new moon. The Moon’s sign adds the day: a leaf, flower, fruit, or root day. The new moon, the full moon, and the day of perigee are rest days.

Does planting by the moon make a difference?

Studies are few and their results are mixed, and the Moon’s pull on the water in a seedbed is far too small to measure. What the calendar reliably gives is a rhythm of sowing, tending, and resting; many gardeners use it as a planting schedule and judge it by their own harvest.

Does gardening by the moon really work?

Honestly, nobody has shown convincingly that it does, and nobody has shown that it hurts. The tradition is centuries old and still widely used because it is simple and keeps a gardener on a regular schedule. Weather, soil, and the frost dates matter far more than the phase, so treat the calendar as a planning aid.

What are the best dates for gardening and planting by the moon in 2026?

In November the outdoor garden rests in the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The next days for sowing on the windowsill, under a waxing Moon on a leaf, flower, or fruit day, are Nov 10, Nov 11, Nov 12, Nov 15, Nov 16, Nov 17; days for repotting houseplants under a waning Moon are Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 8, Nov 26, Nov 27, Dec 3. The calendar on this page lists both months.

How to plant a garden by the moon?

Check the phase first: sow above-ground crops while the Moon waxes and root crops while it wanes. Then check the sign: earth signs give root days, water signs leaf days, air signs flower days, and fire signs fruit days, and the best day is the one where phase and sign agree. Skip sowing on the new moon, the full moon, and the day of perigee, and always let the weather and your last frost date have the final say.