Calendar Cheat Sheet For August. A Few Tips For Gardeners

Today we want to remind you of the things that lie ahead in August.

You can find a detailed description of certain actions in the relevant articles, but here we also provide a short reminder list.

About the month

The ancient name of August is serpen (from the word sickle): bread is harvested this month. In August, the length of the day is over 15 hours. Usually the first half of the month is warm and dry. In the second, the first fall begins: the weather is unstable, although it is still warm. In the third decade, the average daily temperature goes below 15 °. Frosts are already possible in August. Average precipitation is 70 mm.

Signs and proverbs

• In August, the sickles warm, the water cools.
• The month of August smells like an apple.
• In August, summer is before noon, and autumn in the afternoon.
• Honey mushrooms have appeared - the summer is over.
• A lot of berries - for a cold winter.

In August, the harvest is ripe and it will be harvested, processed and stored. It is necessary to start preparing the garden and plants for winter.

We take care of berry bushes after harvest

After harvesting, bushes and trees should be treated. Cut off broken and diseased branches, remove old branches from gooseberries and currants, covering the cut with garden pitch. If the bushes have not been pruned for many years, then in one year you do not need to remove all the old branches. Rejuvenation of such a bush is carried out in two to three years.

In raspberries, we cut off all fruiting shoots at soil level. The tops of the grown young shoots can be cut off - this will make it possible for the wood to mature and prepare for winter.

We loosen the soil under berry bushes and trees, taking care not to damage the roots. Immediately after harvesting, we apply liquid root dressing.

Cut out shoots around apple trees, pears, plums, cherries.

Harvesting in the garden

It's time to harvest cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, onions, garlic, early varieties of cabbage, carrots, beets, celery.

We plant strawberries

We plant strawberries on a site fertilized with compost or humus in advance. We propagate strawberries with rosettes taken from healthy 1-2 year old plantings. It must be remembered that the growth point must be at the ground level.

Pinching and trimming

We pinch the tops of the tomatoes, leaving a couple of sheets above the upper brush, remove the stepsons and old leaves to the lower brush. All leaves cannot be cut off, as the fruits stop growing. We also stepchild and pinch peppers and eggplants. We remove the flowers that will no longer have time to form into a fruit and ripen.

We process the vacated beds

We dig up free beds with compost or manure. You can sow the beds with green manure, which we dig up after germination and embed it in the soil.

We divide and transplant perennials

We divide and transplant: peonies, lilies, delphiniums, phloxes, lilies of the valley, primroses. We remind you that it is advisable not to do this on hot and sunny days.

We feed perennials blooming in autumn

In the first half of August, you can feed the perennials blooming in autumn for the last time: dahlias, gladioli, chrysanthemums.

We plant biennials

In August, it's time to plant biennials: phlox, mallow, chamomile, rudbeckia, daisies, Turkish carnation and others.

Watering root crops

In a drought, they continue to water root crops, carrots, and beets.

Stop watering the trees

We stop watering trees (before charging watering) so as not to cause secondary growth of shoots.