Jobs for August

• Water Camellias and Rhododendrons well as they form buds for next years flowers this month
• Harvest spring sown carrots and beetroots
• Feed tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and aubergines once a week with a high potash feed - liquid tomato feed is perfect
• Dead head bedding plants regularly to encourage more flowers through summer and into autumn
• Cover brassicas with netting to protect against Cabbage White butterflies
• Prune summer flowering shrubs and perennials once they have finished blooming
• Pot on strawberry runners for new plants next year
• Plant out pak choi and other autumn veg plants
• Cut back or mow wildflower areas to help scatter the seeds
• Harvest the last of the second early potatoes, most varieties will store well in paper sacks
• Pinch out the growing tips of tomato plants once they have 5 or 6 trusses of fruit
• Cut back the fruited canes of summer raspberries
• Sow Wallflowers
• Lift and dry onions once the leaves begin to flop and turn yellow