Good Friday is the traditional day for planting the summer garden in the Charlotte. It came so late this year that many people have already planted the bulk of their gardens. For those of you who haven’t here is a word of warning. The old wisdom says that anything planted on Good Friday will grow. A less remembered portion of that old wisdom is that any thing planted on Rotten Saturday (the day after Good Friday) will rot. This second part of this wisdom has not been personally tested.
Planting by the signs is really great if the weather and other factors co-operate. If they don’t the planting may just not get done. A young farmer asked an old farmer, “When is the best time to cut (castrate) pigs?” The old farmer answered, “When your knife is sharp.” Sometimes expediency outweighs astrological correctness.
If one believes the weather report, Good Friday is supposed to be rainy and Rotten Saturday is supposed to be sunny. Is that irony or what? Happy Easter
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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My dad always, and I mean always, planted green beans, corn, and other nonroot crops on good Friday no matter how late it was, he always had a good garden with plenty of crops. He said the seeds would rot if planted on rotten Saturday. Root crops were planted on dark nights when the signs were just right. Thank you for this post. So many have never heard of rotten Saturday.
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