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01 August 2024 31 August 2024
This event begins 08/01/2021 and repeats every year forever
August is usually one of the hottest months of the year - making watering essential. Try to use grey water wherever possible, especially as water butts may be running low if it has been a dry summer. August is traditionally holiday-time, so you might need to enlist the help of friends and family to look after the garden while you are away. When you are at home, take the time to prune Wisteria and summer-flowering shrubs such as lavender once they've finished flowering.
This month's main gardening jobs are:
Prune Wisteria
Don’t delay summer pruning fruits trained as restricted forms
Deadhead flowering plants regularly
Here are some more jobs and reminders for August as circulated by the RHS...
Prune Wisteria
Don’t delay summer pruning fruits trained as restricted forms
Deadhead flowering plants regularly
Watering! - particularly containers, and new plants, preferably with grey recycled water or stored rainwater
Collect seed from garden plants
Harvest sweetcorn and other vegetables as they become ready
Continue cutting out old fruited canes on raspberries
Lift and pot up rooted strawberry runners
Keep ponds and water features topped up
Feed the soil with green manures
Please visit the RHS website for more detailed guidance on each of this month's jobs above, plus much more.
Also highly recommended is the excellent Gardening Know How (August) section at Sutton's Seeds website, for more great gardening tips and advice!
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