Events happening today

1. ALL
   DAY

   

   

   Gardening jobs for…

   
   

   01 August 2025      31 August 2025

   This event begins 08/01/2021 and repeats every year forever

   
   

   August is usually one of the hottest months of the year - making watering essential. Try to use grey water wherever possible, especially as water butts may be running low if it has been a dry summer. August is traditionally holiday-time, so you might need to enlist the help of friends and family to look after the garden while you are away. When you are at home, take the time to prune Wisteria and summer-flowering shrubs such as lavender once they've finished flowering.
   
   This month's main gardening jobs are:
   Prune Wisteria
   Don’t delay summer pruning fruits trained as restricted forms
   Deadhead flowering plants regularly
    
   Here are some more jobs and reminders for August as circulated by the RHS...
   Prune Wisteria
   Don’t delay summer pruning fruits trained as restricted forms
   Deadhead flowering plants regularly
   Watering! - particularly containers, and new plants, preferably with grey recycled water or stored rainwater
   Collect seed from garden plants
   Harvest sweetcorn and other vegetables as they become ready
   Continue cutting out old fruited canes on raspberries
   Lift and pot up rooted strawberry runners
   Keep ponds and water features topped up
   Feed the soil with green manures
    
   Please visit the RHS website for more detailed guidance on each of this month's jobs above, plus much more.
   Also highly recommended is the excellent Gardening Know How (August) section at Sutton's Seeds website, for more great gardening tips and advice!
    
   Cover Image by Steve Bidmead from Pixabay
   

   Event details

   
   Gardening Tips Calendar