August Garden Chores

August Garden Chores include planning your fall garden planting situation. Decide what you will plant and where you will plant each item. Put it all on paper on purpose so when that final week of August comes, things will go smoothly as you plant your fall garden. We still have a few weeks for you to order your seeds for fall. 

Our highlighted August garden chores are to add homemade compost to your now empty raised garden beds to prepare them for the fall seeds that you will be planting in just 2.5 weeks and mix it into the soil. You can use a shovel or a hoe. You do not need to till up the soil. You should have your fall garden planted by the last week of August through the first week of September. If you need some fall seed ideas, check out our Texas Fall Seed Set over at David's Garden Seeds® here.

Of course, if you are not finished planting for fall by August 31, you can continue to plant through September 3. Now keep in mind that this is for hot places like Texas, the deep south and the southwest. It most likely will not cool down much until October and November when you should get some good harvests. But the last few years have been weird weather wise. For instance, we have had early November and December frosts and snow and ice, something we almost never had in the 23 years we have lived in the San Antonio area.

August garden chores include pulling up the rest of the plants that are not up yet. We still have a lot that are putting out good produce like our watermelons and eggplants. There are a few cherry tomatoes that are putting out. Usually, David pulls up everything to give us a fresh start for fall.

As part of our August garden chores, we will be planting lots of fall flowers per David. If we have a mild winter this year, the flowers could last through the winter and into spring. The last two years we have had horrendous winters with some freezes and even snow and ice, totally unusual for Texas. Don't worry: we will be planting a lot of food as well.

As part of our August garden chores, we will be doing some more canning as well. We are harvesting a lot of eggplant and some other things that will need to be canned or pickled.