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It’s August garden tips 2022 version. This has to be my most disappointing year for vegetable gardening.
The Mandevilla flowers look better than any of the other plants. The tomatoes had nice growth, then petered out. The peppers aren’t much and even the herbs have been so-so. I just talked last week about how our hot weather is affecting our vegetable garden.
Tips for mid-August
- Before watering your plants with the hose, let the water run on your lawn for a bit. The water initially coming out could be very hot if the hose has sat in the sun.
- Check days to harvest on your seed packets, then check out your climate zone and get ready to plant broccoli, beets, kale, spinach, turnips, and carrots if the timing is right. And more greens!
- It’s not likely on the top of your Summer Fun list but getting rid of those large weeds that are going to seed, is a really good thing to do.
- If they’ve already produced seeds, yank out the weeds anyway and bury, burn or throw them away. Putting weed seeds in a home compost pile is risky; while weed seeds can be killed if the compost is heated to high temperatures for long periods of time, that’s likely not going to happen in a home or community garden compost.
- Be sure to harvest your vegetables as they ripen.
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