no respite in the gardens in summer!

August is often synonymous with vacations. However, in summer too, work is important in the garden, and if a lot has already been done in July, gardening in August also puts a lot of work on the plate.

How to properly maintain plants, work in the vegetable garden, harvest and garden in August?

What to plant in August, what to sow, the vegetable garden, the greenhouse, the lawn and the flowers

Let’s start with the greenhouse plants. The heat allows you to take cuttings in a greenhouse if you can, especially fuchsias. You can also sow:

• bégonias
• coléus
• cyperus
• episcias
• fixed
• hoyas
• hypoestès
• kalanchoés

• gazanias
• gerberas
• the miseries
• pélargoniums
• Peperomias
• pileas
• plectranthus
• pothos
• saintpaulias
• Skewers
• syngoniums

Remember to water the greenhouse well because of the high temperatures, including the walls. Don’t hesitate to ventilate, or even provide shade.

Vegetables: what to do in the vegetable garden in August?

We take advantage of the seasonal vegetables :

• eggplants
• beets
• some carrots
• sometimes pickles
• courgettes
• shallots
• green beans
• onions
• peppers
• tomatoes

We must not rest on our laurels because it is already time to planting and sowing winter vegetables.

Vegetables to sow in August

You can sow some salads :

• chicory
• curly
• winter lettuce
• chewed up
• mesclun
• rocket
• escarole

but also :

• angelic
• spring cabbages
• spinach
• beans
• turnips
• white onions
• red onions
• then
• radishes (in open ground and in the shade) (to be harvested in September).

and some aromatic plants :

• common or curly chervil
• coriander
• sorrel
• parsley
• sage

Vegetables to plant in August

• Chinese cabbage
• kale
• savoy cabbage
• green cabbages

but also :

• curly chicory,
• the perpetual leeks,
• the escarole.

Other actions to be performed in the vegetable garden in august :

• cut fruit vegetables such as melon;
• harvest thyme and common sage;
• lay insect nets;
• Cut back mint and basil to prevent them from flowering.

Also read: Summer sowing: prepare your autumn vegetable garden now!

Fruits: fruit trees and orchard in August

We harvest some seasonal fruits:

• the last cherries
• apricots
• peaches
• Hazelnut
• nectarines
• prunes
• apples
• The pears are bagged and in some regions they are already being harvested.

L’interview will however take a lot of time in August: it will be necessary to disbud, prune, treat, take cuttings, or even graft the fruit trees. We practice “green pruning” for peach trees, cutting the young branches to four or five leaves from the base. We prune cherry trees. In sunny regions, we take cuttings and plant citrus fruits.

If you have any vineit will also be necessary to disbud it, pinch it, untwist it and treat it, then cut the bunches of grapes.

• Must also maintain the brambles (blackberries in particular) and water the raspberry bushes.
• Concerning the strawberry plantswe layer the strawberry plants to obtain more beautiful plants; we remove the less beautiful plants to keep the best ones.
• We also layer the fig trees.
• We also water the rhubarb.

Trees, shrubs and roses in August

August is a great month for take cuttings from a large number of shrubs :

• abelias
• akébies
• aucubas
• azaleas
• tube and border (Buxus)
• winter heather
• camellias

• shrubby and climbing honeysuckles
• cysts (Cistus)
• Japanese kerria (Kerria japonica)
• dogwoods (Cornus)
• evergreen cotoneasters
• eleagnus
• spindle trees (Euonymus)
• gaulthérias
• broom (Cytisus) or dyer’s broom (Genista)
• Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis)
• witch Hazel
• hortensias (Hydrangea)
• holly (Ilex)
• ifs (Taxus)
• star jasmine (Trachelospermum)
• laurel roses (Nerium)
• lilas of the Indes (Lagerstroemia)
• deciduous magnolias
• mahonias
• nandinas
• Mexican orange trees (Choisya)
• philodendron
• photinias
• pittosporums
• elderberries (Sambucus)
• thujas
• shrubby speedwells (Hebe)
• Evergreen viburnums
• weigélias

Wisteria is pruned and layered.

On veneer graft :

• palmatum maple (Acer palmatum)
• beech (Fagus)
• ivy (Hedera)
• larches
• Osage orange trees

On dormant eye shield graft THE :

• hawthorns (Crataegus)
• cognassiers du Japon (Chaenomeles)
• dogwoods (Cornus)
• holly (Ilex)
• marronniers (Aesculus)
• micocouliers
• elms
• tilleuls (Tilia)

On half-slit graft les céanothes (Ceanothus).

Winter jasmine and passion flowers are also layered.

We prune the lavender and take cuttings bougainvillées (Bougainvillea).

It is also necessary to cut off the faded flowers of the rose bushes.

If you live in a warm enough area, this is a good time to plant the Palm trees.

What to do for the lawn and ornaments in August?

Don’t cut it too short grass to prevent it from burning in the sun. The clippings can be collected to make straw or compost. Water in the evening.

If you have a basinmonitor the water level which could drop, as well as the oxygen level. Remove algae and duckweed if necessary.

Flowers in August

We sow:

• medium bellflowers (Campanula) (in a terrine)
• delphiniums (a god’s)
• wallflowers (Cheiranthus) (in a terrine)
• Snapdragons (Antirrhinum) (in a terrine)
• forget-me-not (in a terrine)
• sweet carnations (Dianthus barbatus) (in a terrine)
• thoughts (Viola) (in a terrine)
• perennial peas (in pots)
• trembling roses (Alcea or Althaea)
• Silene pendula (in a terrine)

On plante :

• alysses
• aubriètes (Aubrieta)
• bluebells (Campanula)
• mountain centaurea (Centaurea montana)
• coquelourdes (Lychnis)
• colchiques (Colchicum)
• cyclamens d’Europe et de Naples (Cyclamen neapolitanum)
• garden iris
• lis martagons (Lilium)
• herbaceous peonies (Paeonia)
• primroses (Primula)
• saffron bulbs (Crocus sativus)
• saponaires (Saponaria)
• stenbergias
• violets

On cutting :

• alyssum (golden baskets)
• Sea cineraria (Senecio cineraria)
• fuchsias
• iresins
• lively flax (linum)
• lily
• mufliers (Antirrhinum)
• florists’ carnations (Dianthus)
• penstemons
• knotweed (Fallopia)
• rough verbena

Perennial carnations are layered

potted plants

Please note that the indoor plantscacti and orchids can be placed outside during the summer. Be sure to water them regularly and give them fertilizer.

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