May 4-5: Poor planting. Fine for cultivating or spraying. Good harvest days.

6-7: First day is a good day for transplanting. First day is also when planted root crops will yield well. Second day is favorable for planting beans, corn, cotton, tomatoes, peppers, and other aboveground crops.

8-9: Any seed planted now will tend to rot.

10-12: Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Most favorable for corn, cotton, okra, beans, peppers, eggplant, and other aboveground crops.

13-17: A barren period. Favorable for killing plant pests, cultivating, or taking a short vacation.

18-19: Favorable time for sowing hay, fodder crops, and grains. Plant flowers. Excellent time for planting corn, beans, peppers, and other aboveground crops.

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