Month-by-Month Guide to Vegetable Gardening
August
The bottom line: It’s the dog days of summer, and both you and the garden need a break. Kick back and enjoy.
Preparation
Make some notes about your successes and failures. (You may not remember those ravishing radishes or sickly heirloom tomatoes
come January when you start to plan next year’s garden.)
Planting
If you haven’t planted for the fall harvest yet (see July), it’s not too late to start now.
Maintenance
Monitor moisture, insects, and disease; if there’s an issue, deal with it right away. Pick up and discard fallen or decaying
fruit—leaving it encourages diseases and insects.
Harvest
Keep picking! Cut fresh herbs for freezing or drying to use over the winter.
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