August

What to do this Month – August

Vegetables

1. Continue to sow spring cabbage, turnips, Oriental vegetables and overwintering onions 
2. Weeds can also compete with vegetables for water, and act as hosts for pests and diseases, so remove regularly by hoeing.
3. Take care when thinning out any late-sown carrot seedlings to prevent the scent released attracting carrot fly females.
4. Marrows should be raised off the ground slightly, to prevent them discolouring from contact with the soil.

Fruit

1. Summer prune sideshoots on trained apples and pears (such as espaliers and cordons) to three to four leaves to form fruiting spurs.
2. Loosely tie together new blackberries and hybrid berry canes.
3. Prune out fruited summer raspberry canes and tie in new ones.
4. Pull off suckers appearing around the base of fruit trees.
5. Make sure fruit isn’t drought-stressed, especially those in containers, against a wall or newly planted.

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