What to do in the garden in August?
In the vegetable garden, sow your radishes in a staggered manner so that they don't all ripen at the same time.
Thin out any seedlings you may have planted in recent weeks and transplant any that are ready. In August, keep a close eye on your vegetable garden to harvest fruits and vegetables before they spoil. Continue sowing lamb's lettuce, winter lettuce, and more.
Continue to pull out garlic, onions and shallots.
In the ornamental garden, don't hesitate to hoe and weed at the base of the flowers to aerate the soil.
In the orchard, prop up tree branches that are too heavily laden with fruit. Rake the ground at the base of the trees, especially after rain.
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Vegetable garden:
Moderate watering of pumpkins,
Covering lettuce, radish and chicory seedlings to protect them from water stress and prevent early bolting.
Ornamental garden:
Installation of tutors for large plants,
Cut faded flowers and perennial branches to the ground,
Abundant watering of trees less than 3 years old.
Orchard:
Supporting loaded plum branches,
Monitoring of powdery mildew attacks,
Sowing green manure at the foot of fruit trees,
Renewal of the mulch,
Elimination of any plums affected by brown rot, and treatment with horsetail decoction,
Removal of shoots affected by powdery mildew.
August sowings
In the vegetable garden:
In August you can sow chervil, spring cabbages, Chinese cabbages, watercress, spinach, lettuce, lamb's lettuce, turnips, radishes, winter radishes,
Stagger sowing lamb's lettuce every 15 days, to enjoy it all winter long.
Green fertilizers:
Sowing green manure after harvests, to avoid leaving the soil bare and limit the development of weeds.
August plantings
You can plant curly chicory, escarole, and wild chicory, lettuce, leeks,
Sowing and transplanting winter chicory and lettuce,
Renewal of strawberry plants from a few runners.
The August harvests
You can harvest aubergines, chard, beets, basil, carrots, celery, chicory, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, chives, cucumbers, gherkins, squash, zucchini, fennel, beans, lettuce, sweetcorn, melons, onions, parsnips, parsley, chilies, peppers, leeks, radishes, rocket, tomatoes.
