Gardening Year - August

With temperatures likely to be high and rainfall low this is often deemed to be the holiday month, the time to put your feet up and recuperate for a week or two.

Well, the great thing is that if an annual break means leaving the garden to its own devices then August is a relatively good month to do so. Watering trends tend to be fairly time consuming and if there are crops to harvest you may well need to get someone to do both these jobs for you but apart from that growth often slows up somewhat so smeaking off for a while should not be too much of a problem.

If this is a month when you have to stay at home and enjoy sitting out on your garden or patio furniture then August is usually great for this too, with plenty of colourful flowers and a good supply of home grown crops too. A little bit of casual pottering around in the garden is pure pleasure so it pays to keep up with deadheading, the odd bit of pest control, some routine weeding and of course mowing the lawn while surrounded by a good looking garden and with any luck some sunshine.