What to do in your garden during August

In winter rainfall regions follow the tips beneath as a basic maintenance guide for your garden this August.

Plant and Sow

Annuals

Wait until next month to sow summer-flowering annuals.

Vegetables

Sow vegetables like:

Bulbs

Start planting summer-flowering bulbs:

Garden Maintenance

Fertilize

• Fertilize fruit trees, like apples, apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums and quinces.

• Fertilize Summer-flowering bulbs and keep them moist.

General Gardening Maintenance

• Mow the lawn if necessary.
• Mulch the garden beds.
• Start planning the summer garden now.
• Remember to deadhead annuals and bedding plants regularly and feed every 2 weeks or so with diluted liquid fertilizer.
• Pull up spent winter annuals and vegetables and prepare the soil for new planting.
• Continue to remove weeds from lawns and pavings.
• Dead, diseased and damaged wood from deciduous trees and shrubs can be removed.

August maintenance tips on watering, pruning,
pests and disease, fertilizing and much more visit our countrywide maintenance guide.