august gardening uk

August Gardening Jobs UK: What to Do in the Garden Now

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Gardener watering tomatoes and picking beans in a full August vegetable garden

The main jobs in the garden in August in the UK are keeping everything watered and fed through the driest weeks of the year, harvesting daily so crops keep producing, summer pruning fruit and trimming hedges and lavender, deadheading flowers, and sowing the salads, spinach and spring cabbage that carry you into autumn. It is … Read more

What to Sow in August UK

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Hands sowing fine seed into a watered drill in a sunny August vegetable bed

By the time August arrives, the allotment has usually stopped feeling like a race. The beans are climbing, the courgettes are out of control, and most of the spring panic about getting things in on time has passed. So a lot of people assume the sowing is over. It isn’t, not by a long way, … Read more