August Calendar

August tasks are sparse, take time to enjoy the garden and harvest the edibles and flowers.  The spring flower bulb catalogs are now coming in the mail, time to look them over and place your order for fall planting.  I'll post later on when to plant those bulbs, usually in October after our first frost.  

• Order spring flowering bulbs for fall planting
• Keep phlox deadheaded.  They easily cross-pollinate, so deadheading  helps keep the true colors.  (Deadheading is cutting the spent flowers so they do not go to seed.)