August Gardening To Do List

Monthly Calender for Newbie Gardener’s in the Southern Hemisphere.

August Notes

Really the same advice as for all winter months. Leave soil to rest as much as you can.
It will preform better come spring if you do. As we near spring, its time to get ahead start for those of you in frost free areas.

Sow Direct Seed of:
Vegetables:
Grain crops
Jerusalem artichoke
Potatoes
Herbs:
None
Flowers:
Statice

Sow or Plant Out:
Flowers:
Dianthus
Shanta daisy
Snap dragon
Herbs:
Echinacea
Verbena
Yarrow
Shrubs:
Herbaceous perennials
Daylily

After frost risk: Sow or plant out:
Vegetables:
Chinese (headed) lettuce
Silver beet (pre-soak seed)
Spring onions
Carrot
Herbs:
Chamomile
Lavender
Rosemary
Thyme
Avocado
Flowers:
Cosmos
Everlasting daisy,
Livingstone daisy,
African & French marigold,
Nasturtium
Tatsoi

In cold frames: sow:
Vegetables:
Celery,
Asparagus seed,
Beetroot (pre-soak seed)
Capsicum
Cucumber
Leek
Lettuce
Tomato
Herbs:
Burdock
Catnip
Hyssop
Rue
Meadowsweet
Valerian
Sweet basil
Motherwort
Ageratum
Flowers:
Petunia
Gerber

In cold areas: sow: Dwarf peas.
In cold areas: sow or plant out: Bare rooted Roses

Plant a green manure crop or cover crop of: Clover, field pea, barley or wheat
In suitable soils grow alfalfa

GENERAL
Take Cuttings of: Chrysanthemum & frangipani
Prune: In frost free areas: Bush & standard roses, hydrangea, crepe myrtle & frangipani

Dead head camellia

Lightly prune mature blueberry

As mentioned do as little as possible to your garden beds, except leave them to rest.

Tidy up fencing, greenhouse.

Clean tools, pots and floors.

FEEDING
On damp soil: apply fertiliser tea to:
Mature Pawpaw, lettuce, silver beet, young rhubarb & camellia if needed

Apply seaweed tea to: Avocado, apple, cherry and potato bed for September planting

Water base of spring flowering bulbs only

After Watering fertilise: Kiwi fruit, almond, apple, apricot, peach, pear & rhubarb
Lightly fertilise: Blueberry

HARVEST
Cabbages
Carrots
Broccoli
Parsnips
Brussels Sprouts