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August Tips

Garden Help > Monthly Tips

Monthly tips are categorized by To-Dos, What to Plant, or Pests and Diseases. Scroll through the list to see items in each category. Also, refer to our list of tips useful for any month.

To-Dos: August

Clean Up Fallen Fruit 
Composting 
Consider Dehydrating Some Of Your Harvest 
Cool Season Vegetables 
Deadheading 
Drip Irrigation 
Drought Tip - Irrigate Efficiently 
Drought Tip - Laundry to Landscape Irrigation 
Drought Tip - Lawns 
Drought Tip - No Fertilizer 
Drought Tip - Trees Come First during Drought 
Drought Tips - Vegetable Gardening 
Eliminating Perennial Weeds 
Encouraging Dahlia Blooms 
Fertilizing Fruit Trees 
Fertilizing Ornamentals During Drought 
Firescaping 
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Without a Garden! 
Fruit Tree Harvest 
Garden Sanitation 
Gather Herbs for Drying 
Grass Cycling 
Hand Pollinating Squash 
Harvesting Oranges 
How to Tell if Fruits and Vegetables Are Ready to Pick 
Irrigate in Circles and Spirals 
Keep Up With Your Vegetable Harvest 
Lady Beetle 
Lawn Care 
Mulch to Conserve Water 
Pinch Your Basil 
Pinching Flowers and Herbs 
Preserving Fruits and Vegetables 
Protect Native Bees 
Prune Apricot and Cherry Trees 
Pruning Hydrangeas 
Soil Moisture Test 
Soil Solarization 
Squash 
Summer Fruit Tree Pruning 
Summer Vegetables 
Testing Soil Moisture Depth 
Time for Seed Saving 
Tomato Bottom Scarring 
Transplanting Vegetables 
Water Budgeting 
Water the Roots, Not the Plants 
Watering Hydrophobic Soil 
Watering Trees 
Weed Spotlight - Bindweed 

Pests and Diseases: August

Ailing Ornamental Trees 
Ant Control 
Birds 
Bitter Pit (Brown Spots) on Apples 
Boxwood Blight 
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug 
Bug Patrol 
Codling Moth 
Cottony Cushion Scale 
Deer 
Giant Whiteflies 
Gophers 
Healthy Tomatoes 
Identifying Beneficial Insects 
Moles 
Pepper Weevil 
Powdery Mildew 
Rat Management 
Rose Care 
Sooty Mold 
Spiders in Your Garden 
Spider Mites 
Squirrel Control 
Stink Bugs 
Sunscald on Fruits and Vegetables 
Today’s Grubs Are Tomorrow’s Beetles 
Tomato Hornworm 
Tomato Russet Mite 
Tomato blossom end rot 
Verticillium Wilt 
White Butterflies and Green Caterpillars 
Whiteflies 
Yellowjackets and Wasps 

What to Plant: August

Don't Plant an Invasive Plant 
Peas 
Seed Viability 
Selecting Seeds 
Vegetable Planting Chart