Monthly tips are categorized by To-Dos, What to Plant, or Pests and Diseases. Scroll through the list to see items in each category. Also, refer to our list of tips useful for any month.
To-do: August
Clean Up Fallen Fruit
Composting
Consider Dehydrating Some Of Your Harvest
Cool Season Vegetables
Deadheading
Drip Irrigation
Drought Tip - Irrigate Efficiently
Drought Tip - Laundry to Landscape Irrigation
Drought Tip - Lawns
Drought Tip - No Fertilizer
Drought Tip - Trees Come First during Drought
Drought Tips - Vegetable Gardening
Eliminating Perennial Weeds
Encouraging Dahlia Blooms
Fertilizing Fruit Trees
Fertilizing Ornamentals During Drought
Firescaping
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Without a Garden!
Fruit Tree Harvest
Garden Sanitation
Gather Herbs for Drying
Grass Cycling
Hand Pollinating Squash
Harvesting Oranges
How to Tell if Fruits and Vegetables Are Ready to Pick
Irrigate in Circles and Spirals
Keep Up With Your Vegetable Harvest
Lady Beetle
Lawn Care
Mulch to Conserve Water
Pinch Your Basil
Pinching Flowers and Herbs
Preserving Fruits and Vegetables
Protect Native Bees
Prune Apricot and Cherry Trees
Pruning Hydrangeas
Soil Moisture Test
Soil Solarization
Squash
Summer Fruit Tree Pruning
Summer Vegetables
Testing Soil Moisture Depth
Time for Seed Saving
Tomato Bottom Scarring
Transplanting Vegetables
Water Budgeting
Water the Roots, Not the Plants
Watering Hydrophobic Soil
Watering Trees
Weed Spotlight - Bindweed
Pests and Diseases: August
Ailing Ornamental Trees
Ant Control
Birds
Bitter Pit (Brown Spots) on Apples
Boxwood Blight
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Bug Patrol
Codling Moth
Cottony Cushion Scale
Deer
Giant Whiteflies
Giant Whiteflies
Gophers
Healthy Tomatoes
Identifying Beneficial Insects
Moles
Pepper Weevil
Powdery Mildew
Rat Management
Rose Care
Sooty Mold
Spider Mites
Spiders in Your Garden
Squirrel Control
Stink Bugs
Sunscald on Fruits and Vegetables
Today’s Grubs Are Tomorrow’s Beetles
Tomato Hornworm
Tomato Russet Mite
Tomato blossom end rot
Verticillium Wilt
White Butterflies and Green Caterpillars
Whiteflies
Yellowjackets and Wasps
What to plant: August
Don't Plant an Invasive Plant
Peas
Seed Viability
Selecting Seeds
Vegetable Planting Chart