AUGUST 2025

TIPS FOR AUGUST     

JOBS FOR AUGUST:

Flowers:

 Prune the current season’s growth off Wisteria to five leaves to encourage flower

buds to be produced for next season’s display.

Continue to feed your hanging baskets and containers but change now to a high potash feed

such as Tomato fertilizer.

Continue to regularly deadhead Roses unless grown for their ornamental hips.

Prune Rambling Roses that flower on the previous season’s growth. Remove a third of the

oldest stems and shorten side shoots by two thirds on those remaining.

Shrubs Take non-flowering semi-ripe cuttings of this season’s growth to increase your

stock of your favourite kinds.

Finish pruning of evergreen and deciduous hedges to avoid die back.

Lawns Raise the height of the cut and mow less often in dry weather and stop applying

Nitrogen feeds to lawns now. Apply an autumn feed next month.

Fruit:

Complete the removal of fruited canes of summer fruiting Raspberries and tie in new

canes to supports.

Harvest the very early ripening Apples and eating straight from the tree is best as they go

“woolly” very quickly indeed.

Vegetables:

Now is the time of plenty in the vegetable garden. Harvest crops on a very

regular basis before they go old.

Sow Spring Cabbage now for crops next May, use varieties such as Pixie and Durham Elf.

Sow leafy greens now for autumn and early winter use, such as Corn Salad, Land Cress,

Rocket, Spinach and Winter Lettuces (such as Winter Density).

Pests and Diseases:

Plants at this time of year become very susceptible to powdery mildew. Spray with a

suitable fungicide or insecticide at the very first signs of the disease or pest.

Poole Flower Show:

Takes place on 23rd &24th August at the Victoria School in their

Sports Hall. Every penny raised at this show goes to this school for severely disabled

children. Please enter the show if you possibly can and if not at least pay a visit and bring

your friends. We will be running a large tombola to raise money and may I appeal once

again for your support in donating a prize for this cause, as you have so generously done in

past years. We shall also be selling plants and produce, so if you have anything we can put

on this stall, please bring it along to the show, or let me have it in the days before.

Thank you

David Bassil, Show Organiser