August garden chores

Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Doug Kapustin

August is no time to hang up your garden hat.

It is hot and miserable here in the Mid-Atlantic, and we have been fighting a losing battle against drought. But, as our favorite task-masters advise us, there is still plenty to do in the garden.

Margaret Roach of A Way to Garden says that every weed we pull now is perhaps 100 weeds we won't have to deal with when that one weed goes to seed. Weeds also steal moisture and nutrients. Here is more from her August to-do list.

This advice comes from North Country Maturing Gardener. She gardens in New Hampshire, so some of the items on her to-do list would be better attempted in September in the Mid-Atlantic.

Here is her advice.