Top 10 tips for your August garden, as recommended by The Royal Horticultural Society:
- 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