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Best Days

Here you can find the Best Days by the Moon to start diets, plant vegetables, cut your hair, wean animals, go fishing, and many more activities. In general, the best time to perform tasks that require strength, fertility and growth are periods between the new and full moon; the best time to slow growth are periods between the full and new moon. Learn more.

best days to wean children and animals, woman feeding a baby a bottle

Wean Animals or Children

best days to start projects

Start Projects

best days to cut hair to discourage growth

Cut Hair to Discourage Growth

best days to cut hair for growth

Cut Hair to Encourage Growth

best days to plant aboveground crops, hands planting lettuce in the garden

Plant Aboveground Crops

woman on scale, best days to start a diet to lose weight

Begin a Diet to Lose Weight

best days to quit smoking

Quit Smoking

Best Days by Activity

2025 Best Days Calendar

best days color hair, hair dye

Color Hair

best days to harvest aboveground crops. broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers on a table

Harvest Aboveground Crops

best days to sauerkraut

Make Sauerkraut

best days to prune to encourage growth, hands pruning a house plant

Prune to Encourage Growth

woman at dentist, best days for dental care

Have Dental Care

best days to harvest belowground crops, potatoes, carrots, beets, radishes, onions, and garlic

Harvest Belowground Crops

best days to straighten hair

Straighten Hair

best days to breed animals, horses, mare and foal in field

Breed Animals

best days to go camping, tent by the river

Go Camping

best days to pick fruit, hand picking apples off the tree

Pick Fruit

best days to bake

Bake

best days to begin logging

Begin Logging

best days to get married, wedding rings and pearls on white

Get Married

best days to begin a diet to gain weight, scale

Begin Diet to Gain Weight

best days to pour concrete and set posts

Set Posts or Pour Concrete

best day to can or pickle

Can or Pickle Vegetables and Fruit

best days to cut hay, hay bales

Cut Hay

best days to dry fruit, vegetables, and meat, dried food

Dry Fruit, Vegetables, or Meat

best days to slaughter livestock, woman preparing a chicken

Slaughter Livestock

best days to destroy weeds and pests

Destroy Pests and Weeds

best days to end projects

End Projects

best days to plant belowground crops, seed potatoes

Plant Belowground Crops

bull in field, best days to castrate animals

Castrate Animals

best days to pollinate or graft

Graft or Pollinate

best days to make jams and jellies

Make Jams or Jellies

best days to brew

Brew Beer or Cider

best days to prune to slow growth, hands in blue gloves using pruning shears

Prune to Discourage Growth

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