Elizabeth Woodworth: Donate to the 4C's drive if you can
When May apples have fruit the size of a cherry and honeysuckle flowers have all come down, then cucumber beetles reach the economic threshold on the farm. The dark Moon favors planting garlic. Lunar conditions favor transplanting shrubs/trees, planting root crops, working with animals. The new Buttercup Moon on the 4th, increases chances of frost above the 40th parallel. As the Moon waxes, the lunar influence weakens until the approach of perigee (May 13). Japanese beetles start to attack when yucca plants send up their stalks. Venus remains the huge Morning Star in the east before dawn. Jupiter is in Ophiuchus, crossing the sky throughout the night and arriving in the southwest before sunrise. Cassiopeia and the Milky Way lie on the northern horizon before midnight. Cygnus rises from the northeast, Ophiuchus from the east, Sagittarius and Libra from the southeast, Centaurus and Corvus are low on the southern horizon. Hydra snakes across the southeast. Monoceros is setting the in west, Gemini going down due west, Capella and Perseus disappearing in the northwest. The Eta Aquarids are active now through May 28, with the most meteors expected on May 5. The Moon is not expected to interfere with meteor watching. The cold front of Late Spring usually crosses the Mississippi on or about May 2, 7, 12 and 15. A New Moon on the 4th could contribute to unseasonable cold and to unstable weather. (Countryside)
May 1, 2019 10:36 AM
