One
of the first tasks in your August Vegetable Garden Plans will be
to start things at the proper time, and without doubt the thoroughness
with which it is done will determine the success of your August
Vegetable Garden Plans.
The following month by month gardening tips for operations, will not
only serve as a handy reminder of things to be done, but as the basis
for such a check list. The importance of the preparation is obvious in
all matters of your August Vegetable Garden Plans.
August Vegetable Garden Plans
Frames. Set in lettuce started in August. Sow radishes and successive
crop of lettuce. Cooler weather begins to tell on late planted crops.
Give cabbage, cauliflower, etc., deeper cultivation. "Handle" celery
wanted for early use.
Harvest and store onions. Get squash under cover before frost. From the 15th to 25th sow spinach, onions, borecole for wintering over. Sow down thickly to rye all plots as fast as cleared of summer crops; or plow heavy land in ridges. Attend to draining.
Fruit. Trees may be set. Procure barrels for storing fruit in winter. At harvest time it is often impossible to get them at any price.
August Vegetable Garden Plans | Growing Garden Vegetables