How to keep your vegetable garden thrive in autumn

Hopefully your garden will roll quite lush, green and beautiful by August. But since August is the hottest month in many places, your garden still requires a lot of love in the last summer weeks.

With this in mind, we have summarized everything you should do in August to increase the health and happiness of your gardens for the rest of the season and beyond.

Harvest summer fruits, vegetables and herbs

If you have a vegetable garden, you should definitely make it the best of the season. This includes stays with the stay of your fruit, vegetables and herbs.

The harvest of their summer plants now only promotes growth to continue. So don't let it delay it. If you stay up to date, your fresh product edition should continue until the end of summer and for some plants until early autumn.

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Weeds bed

If you don't have a real wildflower garden, August is a great time to upgrade your weighing. If you have admitted that something will become unwieldy, take a few days to get out strategically long -legged straggler that may have become too comfortable.

This applies in particular because every increased air humidity in the last summer weeks will only promote weed growth. This could even lead to sowing, which can be controlled even more difficult to control this weed in the future.

Adjust your irrigation plan

Depending on where you live, you may have had a long, dry summer or relentless heat, and it is possible that this will not loosen in August. In this case, it could be time to adapt your irrigation plan and technology.

Put on more depth and less frequency and consider switching to a morning irrigation routine if you have done this late afternoon or at night.

If you want to travel in August, make a plan for the neighbors, drop by and check your beds or make sure that your irrigation system is set up and works correctly.

Add mulch and fertilizer

August is a great time to add your flower bed mulch and make a round fertilizer. This can serve both as aesthetic charging and as important system maintenance.

If you have planted something brand new this summer, Mulch helps your established root systems cool and well hydrated, while the fertilizer can replace all the nutrients that have sucked up their plants during the previous part of the season.

But in addition to supporting their plants in the hotter days, mulching will now also benefit their plants in the cooler months. This is because mulch in moisture to cool their root systems in the heat of the August, and root systems protect against the harder elements even in cold weather.

Look at pests

Even if you had a dram-free summer without pests, you should carry out a spot check in August to ensure that this is still true.

There are many late summer pests that may occur, since some to result in more susceptible to increased heat and humidity. This includes aphids and spider mites as well as caterpillars.

And when you see signs of invaders, you don't panic. There are many environmentally friendly ways to keep pests and maintain the health of your garden.

Plant cool weather plants

If you hope to continue your vegetable garden until autumn, August is an ideal time to sow seeds for cooler weather systems. This includes most plants in the Brassica family: cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage and kale and Brussels sprouts.

Make a winterizing plan

Obviously you don't have to winter, but you should settle your schedule by the end of August. Think about whether frost wipes are needed and take a look at all pot plants that can be moved and protected in winter.

You can also use this time to assess your summer garden tools and remove everything you cannot use again or not. Then make room for everything you need this winter to keep your garden safe and protected until it is time to thrive again next year.