Jobs for August

August is here and our gardens are at full swing, Summer is well underway. There are lots to do in the garden this month.

Garden Jobs

• Plant your autumn bulbs such as Colchicum, Crocus and Nerine.
• Prune back your lavender with an inch of new growth once flowered.
• Keep cutting back your perennials as they finish flowering.
• Now’s a good time to give your hedges a final trim.
• If you have patches in your grass you can sow grass seeds in late August.
• If you have a summer meadow and its finished for the season mow it and remove the arising’s.
• Any container grown Camellias need to not be allowed to dry out as they are producing next years flower buds.

Kitchen Garden

• Continue to pick your vegetables especially the fast growing ones that will continue to produce fruit after you have picked it.
• You can now pick you main crop potatoes.
• Prune your fruited canes of summer fruiting raspberries.
• If your growing sweet corn harvest them when they are ready.
• Some people like to grow green manure crops such as mustard that can be dug in over the autumn to help improve the soil.
• You can harvest your onions when the stems have gone dry and papery.
• If you want salad onions for next year now is a good time to plant them.