Flower Power Garden Hour 183: August To Do, Horticulture News, Listener Q&A

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It is the August To Do List, and we are having a gorgeous summer that is offering up IDEAL garden conditions. Vegetable and fruit harvests are bountiful, but there is prep work for fall piling up.

It is time to: Plant seeds in ground, including: beets, cabbage, carrots, turnips, potatoes

Prep garden beds for Fall planting in September: Weed, compost

Chores include:

Dead-head flowers
Pick up fallen fruit
Cut off suckers
Prevent weeds from going to seed
Collect seeds
Harvest melons
Order fall bulbs (daffodils, tulips, etc)
Deep water trees

We finish up with a Listener Q&A section. Topics covered include:

Are pill bugs good for the soil?
Do I need to keep “braiding” my plant?
Habanero not blooming – why?
Fig tree only produce dry, inedible figs. Why?

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