August Garden Tasks 2025
Gardening Tips for August 2025
Average High is 98°. Average Low is 60°.
It's summer in Sacramento, so this month, it's all about surviving the heat, making sure your garden continues to flourish, and preparing for the seasons ahead. Let's talk warm-season perennials, cool-season veggies, and watering tips for your lawn.
It's summer in Sacramento, so this month, it's all about surviving the heat, making sure your garden continues to flourish, and preparing for the seasons ahead. Let's talk warm-season perennials, cool-season veggies, and watering tips for your lawn.
Sunshine Harvests: Enjoy the fruits of your labor—harvest tomatoes, squash, eggplant, and cucumbers fresh off the vine. Harvesting now will ensure you have more veggie production later.
Mulch Like A Pro: Blanket your beds with mulch to lock in moisture and cool the roots during triple-digit days. Mulch keeps weeds down, too.
Hydration Rituals: Early morning watering = less evaporation + healthier roots. Bonus: the garden is peaceful then—water when you are having your morning cup of joe.
Fresh mint surrounded by a healthy dose of mulch to cool roots and keep in moisture.
Deadheading Dance: Snip faded flowers to spark fresh blooms—like giving your plants a second wind. Remember to feed with an organic fertilizer.
Lead With Seeds: Sow seeds for Broccoli, Kale, Pak Choi, Collards, and Lettuce indoors like you're building a leafy army to battle the blandness of winter meals. You're not just planting seeds—you're planning comforting soups, crunchy salads, and stir-fries that make January jealous.
Keep The Momentum Going: If you're looking to keep your garden going strong, now's the time to direct sow Beets, Carrots, Lettuce, and Turnips.
Lead With Seeds: Sow seeds for Broccoli, Kale, Pak Choi, Collards, and Lettuce indoors like you're building a leafy army to battle the blandness of winter meals. You're not just planting seeds—you're planning comforting soups, crunchy salads, and stir-fries that make January jealous.
Keep The Momentum Going: If you're looking to keep your garden going strong, now's the time to direct sow Beets, Carrots, Lettuce, and Turnips.
It's time to sow seeds for cool-season veggies like lettuce and other leafy greens.
Blooms Gone Wild: It's the perfect time to tuck some warm-season flowering perennials into your garden—think cheerful Rudbeckia, Coneflower, sunny Coreopsis, and fragrant Hyssop.
World Honeybee Day: Buzz into action on August 16 to help celebrate and promote bees by planting a colorful, bee-friendly garden. Make bees buzz with joy by including Basil, Lavender, and Catmint.
World Honeybee Day: Buzz into action on August 16 to help celebrate and promote bees by planting a colorful, bee-friendly garden. Make bees buzz with joy by including Basil, Lavender, and Catmint.
Neat & Tidy: Gather up any fallen fruit to keep things tidy and give your fruit trees a light summer trim to keep them happy and healthy.
Celebrate bees this month with World Honeybee Day on August 16. Here, a bee is enjoying time with a beautiful, purple coneflower.
Lawn Care: Keep your lawn happy and healthy this August by using the water-saving cycle and soak method. Not sure what that is? No worries—just watch our video or ask one of our in-house garden gurus.
Give Your Summer Garden A Boost! August is the perfect time to plant heat-loving annuals like vinca, marigolds, and portulaca. These sun-loving beauties thrive in the heat and are just the thing to refresh tired containers and hanging baskets.
