Necessary Work In August In The Garden And In The Greenhouse

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

What you need to have time to do in the garden in the last month of summer

August is a fertile time. The heat subsides. The garden and the vegetable garden delight and thank the gardener for his work. However, it's too early to relax - it's time to water, loosen the soil, remove weeds, feed the plants and protect them from pests and diseases.

Roots

First of all, on the beds, they complete the third breakthrough (thinning) of the beets, removing bundle products - roots with a diameter of 3-4 cm, leaving the plants at a distance of 6-8 cm from each other. After rain or watering, shoot root plants are removed. Parsley and celery are selectively harvested, using them for drying, salting, freezing, canning. Carrots are selectively harvested. At this time, gardeners finish sowing early daikons, re-sowing radishes, watercress, turnips, salads, onions for herbs, spinach and other greens. Remove the bottom 4-5 leaves from the root parsley for better pouring.

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Cabbage

On flowering cauliflower plants, the heads are shaded by breaking or tying the leaves; remove growth points from Brussels sprouts. Harvest early varieties of white cabbage, cauliflower and other types of cabbage; mid- and late-ripening varieties are fed and additionally hilled.

Nightshade crops

- at the beginning of August, growth points, stepsons and unblown tomato brushes are removed. As fruits ripen or take off, remove old leaves below the first cluster with fruits.

Continue to shake the plants 2-3 times a week for better pollination. Cleaning is completed before the onset of cold nights with temperatures below 8 ° C. Peppers, eggplants are removed, also removing unblown flowers and growth points.

Pumpkin crops

- there is a massive harvest of cucumbers, zucchini, squash. The growth point is pinched on the pumpkin.

Onion garlic

In the first half of August, onion sets (obtained by sowing nigella) are harvested after lodging and drying the leaves. With massive browning and lodging of leaves, harvesting of turnip onions begins. First of all, podzimny plantings are removed (especially winter varieties of onions, which are used mainly in harvesting, for canning and short-term storage). Onions and garlic are pulled out (on heavy soils, they are dug in with a pitchfork) and kept in the sun for 4-5 days, dried with tops. In wet weather, the onions are laid out in one layer under a canopy in a ventilated room, under greenhouse frames, etc. 10 days after drying, the tops and roots are cut 3-5 cm from the shoulders. If the weather was damp during the harvesting period, then after drying the onion is heated at 43 ° C for 8 hours.

Store onions and winter garlic at a temperature of 1-3 ° C in a dry place. You can store onions and spring garlic indoors in braids. Onion sets with a diameter of 1-1.5 cm are used after drying for winter planting, and more than 3 cm for food. After drying, the rest of the seedlings are heated at a temperature of 35-40 ° C for 20-30 days.

For shooting varieties of onions, cut off arrows, covers, place in gauze bags and hang in a dry room for ripening. Until August 15, air bulbs of multi-tiered onions and arrowheads of garlic are planted.

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Legumes

- asparagus, sugar varieties are harvested with spatulas, they are used fresh, in cooking for freezing and canning. Shelling varieties of beans and peas, beans are used as the seeds ripen.

Mid-August to mid-September is the best time to lay a lawn. So take care of the seeds and fertilizers. Mow, water and feed parterre, park, sports lawns regularly, and after mid-August you can mow the meadow lawn.

Potatoes

- 7-10 days before the planned harvest, potato tops are mowed and burned. The potatoes are dug up, sorted and stored after drying. Seed potatoes selected from the best nests are laid out in the light, landscaped and then laid for storage. In the vacated space, it is best to sow green manure - rye, wheat, vetch, rapeseed.

Greenhouses, greenhouses, storage

As the harvest ends or the onset of cold dews, the plants are harvested and burned from greenhouses and greenhouses. The cultivation facilities and storage facilities themselves are disinfected with chalk solution, copper-containing fungicides and sulfur-based preparations, burning sulfur bombs.

Perennial vegetable, flower, fruit and berry plants are fed, loosened, watered. Old leaves are removed from strawberries without damaging the horns, the plantation is sprayed with a mixture of fungicides and soluble complex fertilizers. Harvested as they ripen, berry and stone fruit crops. Pome fruits (early apples) are usually picked after the "Apple Savior". Berry and fruit crops are fed and watered; after harvesting, the mummified fruits are removed and protective measures are taken.

August is the time of budding (grafting) of fruit crops and cuttings of red and black currants.

Harvesting organic fertilizers

At the beginning of August, the compost is "interrupted" for the last time (it is shaken from a pile into a new one), the harvesting of organic fertilizers, sod land is continued, putting the sod in a pile. For compost, dug up weeds, vegetable residues of garden crops not affected by dangerous diseases and pests, fallen leaves, freshly cut grass, etc. are used. For better decomposition of organic residues, a "Composting accelerator", manure or slurry is added to the compost. In dry weather, water it.

If you did a good job in the previous year and in the first half of this year, then your bins have been significantly replenished, and if you are not lazy in August, then lay a good reserve for the future harvest.