Flower Power Garden Hour 183: August To Do, Horticulture News, Listener Q&A

Flower Power Garden Hour

It is the August To Do List, and we are having a gorgeous summer that is offering up IDEAL garden conditions. Vegetable and fruit harvests are bountiful, but there is prep work for fall piling up.

It is time to: Plant seeds in ground, including: beets, cabbage, carrots, turnips, potatoes

Prep garden beds for Fall planting in September: Weed, compost

Chores include:

• Dead-head flowers
• Pick up fallen fruit
• Cut off suckers
• Prevent weeds from going to seed
• Collect seeds
• Harvest melons
• Order fall bulbs (daffodils, tulips, etc)
• Deep water trees

We finish up with a Listener Q&A section. Topics covered include:

• Are pill bugs good for the soil?
• Do I need to keep “braiding” my plant?
• Habanero not blooming – why?
• Fig tree only produce dry, inedible figs. Why?

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