August Gardening Tips

Enjoy the warm summer days in your garden this month, there are just a few easy tasks for when you are pottering around…

• Continue to water and feed hanging baskets and containers.
• Deadhead faded flowers of perennials and annuals to encourage new blooms.
• Trim lavender bushes once they have finished flowering.
• Take cuttings of tender perennials such as Pelargoniums, Fuchsias and Salvias.
• Stop feeding roses so as to discourage soft growth. Prune rambling and shrub roses, removing all dead and weak shoots.
• Sow lettuce, spring cabbage and winter spinach.
• Pinch out the tips of runner beans and pick courgettes regularly.
• Conserve water by using an irrigation system and large self-watering plants.