Plant profile · Garden
Strawberry: The Backyard Berry That Earns Every Square Foot
June-bearing, everbearing, or day-neutral — pick the right type for your zone and harvest cadence, and a 4×8 bed pays you back from May through October.
The LunaireGarden · Atelier · Almanac
Plant profiles, guides & seasonal timing — updated weekly
The almanac · lunar timing
In the garden, this week.
A short, gentle calendar of what to do — informed by your zone, the moon, and the season. The full daily almanac is coming in Phase 2.
Week of May 19 · Zone 6b
In the garden, this week
Waning crescent · 12%
- TueDirect-sow beans, cucumbers, summer squash.waxing best
- WedPinch back chrysanthemums for fall bloom.any time
- ThuHarden off tomato starts; bring in if under 50°F.5 days
- SatTop-dress raised beds with finished compost.morning
- SunWeed once before flowering — easiest now.cool of day
Burlington, VTFULL ALMANAC →
6b
Sample hardiness zone
Zone tools coming soon
58°
Typical soil temp · May
4-inch depth
Waning
Moon phase · this week
Lunar calendar coming soon
Mid-May
Last frost · cool zones
From the magazine
What we're reading this week
Recent guides from our editors — for the morning coffee, before the day picks up.
Flowering Daisy Plants: Six Daisies for the Real Garden
Shasta for the classic, Gerbera for the tropical color, African daisy for the heat, painted daisy for the cut-flower bed — six daisy-form plants and where each belongs.
Small Kitchen Ideas
Small Kitchen Ideas: a practical, zone-aware guide from The Lunaire's editors.
Inflatable Hot Tubs
Inflatable Hot Tubs: a practical, zone-aware guide from The Lunaire's editors.
The atelier · by room
Explore, one room at a time
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Room-by-room guides are on the way.
We're building the Atelier's living-room, kitchen, bedroom and bath collections now. In the meantime, the room hub is live.
Plant of the week
Lily of the Valley: The Fragrant Groundcover That Spreads in Shade
Convallaria majalis
Pure white bells in May, a perfume that travels twenty feet, and a habit that will eat any shady patch you plant it in — for better and for worse.
Sun
Shade
Water
Medium
Bloom
Late Spring
The garden pillar · plant library
Fresh in the plant library.
From your zone, your sun, your soil — recent profiles our editors have added to the library.
Milkweed: The Only Plant Monarch Caterpillars Eat
Asclepias spp.
Full sunLow
Spider Plant: The Forgiving Houseplant That Multiplies for You
Chlorophytum comosum
Part shadeMedium
Dragon Fruit: The Climbing Cactus That Actually Fruits at Home
Hylocereus undatus
Full sunLow
Snake Plant: The Architectural Houseplant That Survives Anything
Dracaena trifasciata
Part shadeLow
Editor's picks · the long reads
Quiet stories worth the morning.
Editor-tested · this season
Tools we'd buy again.
Quietly tested over months, then linked here. Affiliate-supported.
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The editor-tested shelf is being stocked.
Our editors are putting tools through a full season of beds before we recommend anything. The first shelf lands with the June issue.
“A garden in May doesn't want a vision — it wants a hand, lightly, in the right two or three places.”
— Maeve Holloway · The Garden Editor
The atelier · by style
Find your way of living.
Distinct moods our editors return to — cottage, japandi, coastal, farmhouse. The style collections are coming soon.
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Style collections are in the works.
We're curating the Atelier's by-style guides now. The pillar hub is live with everything published so far.
From our readers
Tell us what you planted.
Every Sunday we read what our readers have planted, fixed, kept, or let go — and feature a few notes in the morning letter. Send us yours.
Send us a note✿Reader notesFeatured weekly
"Share a photo of your garden, a question, or a small win — we read every one."